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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 5:30 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo's police chief said he's \"deeply disturbed\" by allegations that officers bent points on their star-shaped badges to commemorate and count the people they've shot and killed in the line of duty, and is launching an official inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revelations that some officers bent points on their police stars as a \"badge of honor\" after killing someone were first reported by independent news organization \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2020/07/28/vallejo-police-bend-badge-tips-to-mark-fatal-shootings/\">Open Vallejo\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a retaliation claim with the city, John Whitney, \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2019/12/20/vallejo-police-mum-on-departure-of-police-captain-john-whitney/\">a 19-year department veteran\u003c/a>, contends he was fired last year for internally exposing the alleged badge-bending tradition and other misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Celebrating the killing of a human being is never acceptable,\" Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams said in an interview Wednesday. \"If there’s any credible evidence found, I will expand the inquiry into an official investigation, and I want our community to know that misconduct will never be tolerated under my administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new allegations are the latest explosive charges against a department still reeling from the recent, high-profile fatal police shooting of Sean Monterrosa and the subsequent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101878756/destruction-of-evidence-in-vallejo-police-shooting-spurs-calls-for-federal-investigation\">destruction of evidence\u003c/a> in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Open Vallejo, at least 14 of the 51 current and former Vallejo police officers involved in fatal shootings since 2000 had their badges bent by a colleague. In recent months, Vallejo residents and activists have repeated the phrase \"fire the fatal 14,\" in reference to officers involved in more than one fatal shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more vallejo police coverage\" tag=\"vallejo-police-department\"] In a video posted to Facebook Wednesday in response to the new allegations, David Harrison, the cousin of Willie McCoy, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\">shot and killed by VPD in February 2019\u003c/a>, is calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to \"clean house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not just seeking some type of civil lawsuit,\" Harrison said. \"We're seeking real justice where actually these police officers are arrested and charged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not bad policing,\" he added. \"This is criminal action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, at their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, members of the Vallejo City Council were notably mum about Whitney's misconduct allegations, even as they spent a considerable amount of time discussing why the Police Department needed more funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were talking about crime and how the crime is going up. Well, the biggest criminals in Vallejo are the public officials,\" Harrison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite pushback from members of the community, the City Council voted 6-1 to adopt a new budget that allocates more than $50 million — nearly half of the city's general fund — to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An overwhelming number of people giving public comment at the meeting advocated for the defunding the department and reallocating those funds to other city programs. Some specifically referenced the badge-bending tradition, arguing more money would not improve the department's systemic problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference Wednesday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823146/state-attorney-general-to-review-and-reform-vallejo-police-department-following-fatal-shooting\">who last month opened a review of the Vallejo Police Department’s policies and practices\u003c/a>, declined to address the badge-bending allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Attorney General's office said in a written response to questions that \"local authorities would be best positioned to address any inquiries on the matter at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Bob Sampayan, a former Vallejo Police sergeant, told Open Vallejo he knew about the badge-bending tradition, but made no mention of it at the City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Nold, an attorney representing the families of Willie McCoy and Sean Monterrosa in lawsuits against the city, said she wants to know how many other officials knew about the badge-bending allegation, and why it was never explained to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s just further evidence of the culture of policing and the level at which the city and city officials were aware of some of these behaviors,\" Nold said. \"So one of the bigger things that we’re focusing in on specifically with the McCoy case right now, because that’s already filed and in existence, is the evidence that the city itself knew about the conduct of its officers and did nothing to stop it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the City Council also voted to create a police oversight commission and a police auditor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nold said the city needs to do much more than that to reform the embattled department, starting with firing the officers involved in multiple fatal shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The demand, ultimately, we’ve been saying all along, is get rid of the fatal 14,\" Nold said. \"You can’t reform without removal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This report contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department released footage Wednesday from police body cameras showing pieces of a chaotic confrontation in a Walgreens parking lot and an officer firing an automatic rifle from the backseat of an unmarked police pickup truck, fatally striking a 22-year-old San Francisco man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police posted video of Sean Monterrosa's June 2 shooting over a month after his death, despite calls by those in Vallejo and beyond to do so immediately. The \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/436510158\">full video was released\u003c/a> on the city of Vallejo's Vimeo page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police, the Walgreens on Redwood Street in Vallejo had been broken into earlier that evening — the fourth night of protests throughout the Bay Area in reaction to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis — as well as a few days before, when a surveillance camera that might have captured the shooting was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos from three Vallejo police detectives riding in the pickup truck do not show what Monterrosa was doing when the officer in the back seat fired his rifle through the windshield. Police have said Monterrosa stopped, took a kneeling position and placed his hands above his waist — revealing what an officer believed to be a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspected gun was a 15-inch hammer tucked into Monterrosa's sweatshirt pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The videos show an officer appearing to mount and aim his rifle through the windshield while the police pickup truck is still moving, just as it arrives on the scene. The officer appears to fire the five shots at the moment the vehicle comes to a stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11827992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2.jpg\" alt=\"Footage from a body camera worn by the Vallejo police detective who shot Sean Monterrosa shows the moment he fired his rifle through the windshield of a police truck.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2-800x445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2-1020x568.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2-1536x855.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Footage from a body camera worn by the Vallejo police detective who shot Sean Monterrosa shows the moment he fired his rifle through the windshield of a police truck. \u003ccite>(Vallejo Police Dept.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shooting officer, whose identity has yet to be confirmed by the Vallejo Police Department, can be heard on the video asking, \"What did he point at us?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know man,\" another officer responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hey, he pointed a gun at us,\" the shooting officer shouts. He then again asks another officer, \"You see a gun on him?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, I did not see a gun,\" the officer responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterrosa was fatally struck once in the neck, according to an attorney representing his family, who has viewed Monterrosa's body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, fu...,\" the shooting officer begins to say on video, then stops as he and two other officers approach Monterrosa, who is seen crumpled on the ground in the pharmacy's parking lot. \"Stupid!\" he says a few seconds later, before dropping his rifle and running to retrieve a first aid kit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer who fired starts to grunt and speak in halting phrases about a minute later, when he returns to where another officer is performing CPR on Monterrosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He came around, came right at us,\" he says. He then retrieves his rifle and starts to join other officers clearing the Walgreens, but stops and talks to a police captain who arrived at the pharmacy at about the same time in a different vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought that fucking ax was a gun,\" the officer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought he was armed, too, dude,\" the captain says, before telling the officer to take deep breaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'll be alright,\" the captain tells the officer. \"You've been through this before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open Vallejo, an independent organization that has fought for the release of public documents involving Vallejo Police, said it confirmed with multiple sources that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OpenVallejo/status/1269071225663307777\">Detective Jarrett Tonn was the officer who shot Monterrosa\u003c/a>. Reporters with the East Bay Times and Vallejo Times Herald also \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2020/06/05/exclusive-vallejo-officer-who-killed-sf-man-had-three-prior-shootings-as-a-policeman/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identified\u003c/a> Tonn as the shooting officer, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. Tonn has shot and injured two other suspects since 2015, and he shot at but missed a third, the newspapers reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At no point in the videos released Wednesday is the shooting officer shown being separated from other involved officers, which is standard procedure for most California police agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterrosa's shooting is the first by a Vallejo officer since Shawny Williams, a 26-year veteran of the San Jose Police Department, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11774160/vallejo-selects-shawny-williams-to-head-police-department-its-first-black-chief\">became the city's police chief\u003c/a>. Some Vallejo residents hoped Williams could usher in a new era for the embattled department, which has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769266/the-long-storied-history-of-police-community-tension-in-vallejo\">several high-profile police shootings\u003c/a> of Black and brown men in recent years — none of which have led to prosecution or discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterrosa's sisters said Williams has given contradictory accounts of what prompted the officer to fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone's playing hot potato over my brother's death,\" Michelle Monterrosa said after seeing the video. \"Sean deserves to be here. ... It just shows how the system continues to fail us all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams previously described Monterrosa as kneeling when the officer fired, with his hands above his waist. He said Wednesday that Monterrosa was \"in a crouching, half-kneeling position. His hands were toward his waistband.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterrosa's death during a national uprising over police killings of Black and brown people drew new attention to the Bay Area department with a long history of violence and a high rate of police shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11768008,news_11768675,news_11769266 label='Vallejo Police Shootings']Vallejo Police have shot \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/vallejo-police-highest-rate-of-residents-shot-per-capita-in-northern-california-nbc-bay-area-probes-causes/190344/#:~:text=According%20to%20that%20state%20Attorney,any%20other%20Bay%20Area%20city.\">more people per capita\u003c/a> than neighboring Bay Area cities. The Police Department has long been an outlier. A KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> found that in 2012, Vallejo police killed people at a rate 38 times the national average, with a single officer fatally shooting three people in questionable circumstances over a five-month period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after Monterrosa was killed, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced his office would \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823146/state-attorney-general-to-review-and-reform-vallejo-police-department-following-fatal-shooting\">review and reform\u003c/a>\" the Vallejo Police Department. The voluntary review was being considered before Monterrosa's death, the attorney general said, and stops short of court-ordered reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra's office later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826054/state-attorney-general-wont-investigate-vallejo-polices-fatal-shooting-of-sean-monterrosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declined\u003c/a> Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams' request to investigate the slaying of Monterrosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams then recused herself and her office from the case, as well as the 2019 slaying of Willie McCoy by Vallejo police officers. She called again for the state Attorney General to investigate, citing a \"perceived conflict\" in the District Attorney's Office and a lack of trust \"from some community members.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/glid24/status/1278842668500439041?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers involved in shooting have been placed on routine, paid administrative leave, though Vallejo police have not publicly identified them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department is legally barred from identifying officers involved in Monterrosa's death, due to a temporary restraining order obtained by the Vallejo officer's union, Chief Williams said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Abrams recently told KQED she has always supported law enforcement and community members victimized by crime, but that \"neither has affected my ability to objectively review and make decisions on cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=about_15238 label='Take Our Survey']Some Vallejo residents are disappointed over the handling of Monterrosa's shooting so far, criticizing the city for dragging its feet on the release of both body camera footage and the name of the officer who fired their weapon. Among those at Williams' June 3 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJLMmxMh11s\">first press conference on the shooting\u003c/a> was Alicia Saddler, whose brother \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768675/going-against-the-polices-narrative\">Angel Ramos was shot and killed by Vallejo police in 2017\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At what point do you arrest him, and make an example out of all these officers?\" she yelled at Williams. \"Fire him! Not paid leave, fire him for killing a man that was on his knees!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 8: The original version of this report contained an inaccurately transcribed quote. The story has been edited to correct the inaccuracy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This report contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department released footage Wednesday from police body cameras showing pieces of a chaotic confrontation in a Walgreens parking lot and an officer firing an automatic rifle from the backseat of an unmarked police pickup truck, fatally striking a 22-year-old San Francisco man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police posted video of Sean Monterrosa's June 2 shooting over a month after his death, despite calls by those in Vallejo and beyond to do so immediately. The \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/436510158\">full video was released\u003c/a> on the city of Vallejo's Vimeo page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police, the Walgreens on Redwood Street in Vallejo had been broken into earlier that evening — the fourth night of protests throughout the Bay Area in reaction to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis — as well as a few days before, when a surveillance camera that might have captured the shooting was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos from three Vallejo police detectives riding in the pickup truck do not show what Monterrosa was doing when the officer in the back seat fired his rifle through the windshield. Police have said Monterrosa stopped, took a kneeling position and placed his hands above his waist — revealing what an officer believed to be a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspected gun was a 15-inch hammer tucked into Monterrosa's sweatshirt pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The videos show an officer appearing to mount and aim his rifle through the windshield while the police pickup truck is still moving, just as it arrives on the scene. The officer appears to fire the five shots at the moment the vehicle comes to a stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11827992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11827992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2.jpg\" alt=\"Footage from a body camera worn by the Vallejo police detective who shot Sean Monterrosa shows the moment he fired his rifle through the windshield of a police truck.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2-800x445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2-1020x568.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/BodyCam2-1536x855.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Footage from a body camera worn by the Vallejo police detective who shot Sean Monterrosa shows the moment he fired his rifle through the windshield of a police truck. \u003ccite>(Vallejo Police Dept.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shooting officer, whose identity has yet to be confirmed by the Vallejo Police Department, can be heard on the video asking, \"What did he point at us?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know man,\" another officer responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hey, he pointed a gun at us,\" the shooting officer shouts. He then again asks another officer, \"You see a gun on him?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, I did not see a gun,\" the officer responds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterrosa was fatally struck once in the neck, according to an attorney representing his family, who has viewed Monterrosa's body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, fu...,\" the shooting officer begins to say on video, then stops as he and two other officers approach Monterrosa, who is seen crumpled on the ground in the pharmacy's parking lot. \"Stupid!\" he says a few seconds later, before dropping his rifle and running to retrieve a first aid kit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer who fired starts to grunt and speak in halting phrases about a minute later, when he returns to where another officer is performing CPR on Monterrosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He came around, came right at us,\" he says. He then retrieves his rifle and starts to join other officers clearing the Walgreens, but stops and talks to a police captain who arrived at the pharmacy at about the same time in a different vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought that fucking ax was a gun,\" the officer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought he was armed, too, dude,\" the captain says, before telling the officer to take deep breaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'll be alright,\" the captain tells the officer. \"You've been through this before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It’s only getting bigger and bigger and bigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Harrison: “What I’m seeing now is that these governors are getting on television now talking about ‘they want swift justice.’ We’ve never seen that before. I think that things are gonna come to a head. They’re not even worried about the people. The system is worried about the property and the economics. And when our people are unified and organized, they stop the economical flow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On the emotional impact of losing a loved one to a police killing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alicia Saddler: “I’ve just seen a video of George Floyd’s daughter … she was saying ‘my daddy changed the world.’ I broke down and cried because yes, baby: it’s not changed yet, but he is changing it. And it’s sad that it had to be her dad. 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He was truly one of a kind,\" the page says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Unarmed, Shot While on His Knees\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The fatal shooting of Monterrosa occurred as protests across the country erupted following the recent police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and others. 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Police said they thought he was stabbing another person during a fight — but no knife was found near him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fire him! Not paid leave, fire him for killing a man that was on his knees!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler has repeatedly called on the department to hold its officers accountable for deaths like her brother's, and said it’s been hard to get locals to organize around police killings. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis was one of about a dozen Vallejo residents lined up to voice displeasure over the change ahead of City Council’s vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative of the city’s bargaining team said the change was meant to fix outdated, “problematic,” language in the old agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This change reflects the current practice, which is in line with industry best practices in other departments,” said Heather Ruiz, the city's director of human resources. “There is nothing preventing the City from testing officers when there is cause based on reasonable suspicion, whether that suspicion occurs post-incident, or at any other time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11776465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11776465\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_4455-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Vallejo resident Lisa Davis voices her opposition to a new police contract at a City Council meeting on Sept. 24, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_4455-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_4455-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_4455-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_4455-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_4455-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_4455.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vallejo resident Lisa Davis voices her opposition to a new police contract at a City Council meeting on Sept. 24, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just one council member voted against the new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Robert McConnell said he agreed with salary increases under the new contract, but said he'd like to see the city return to the negotiation table over the issue of drug and alcohol testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My preference would be to send this back,” McConnell said to applause from residents, “so that the two sides here could possibly come up with a better definition of when each side would expect this mandatory testing should be done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A police expert questioned the city’s timing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It raises all kinds of red flags: Why now?\" said LaDoris Cordell, a retired superior court judge in Santa Clara County and the former independent police auditor for the City of San Jose. \"I think the timing raises alarm bells, [is] highly suspicious, and yet another reason why this provision should stay in this agreement given these shootings that have been perpetrated by this police department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Human Resources Director Ruiz said that while terms of the old agreement allowed the department to order testing after police shootings, it still didn't require the testing, and testing was not consistently conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that means the city should beef up the language to clearly require drug testing, resident Calvin Harrell told the City Council, to prevent officers from deciding to cover for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Friends don't snitch on friends,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Council members were more focused on broader updates to the police contract, which they said ultimately make wages more competitive with other police departments and allow the city to recruit and keep the best officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Vallejo Police Officers' Association is encouraged with the steps that have been achieved in bringing Police Officers in Vallejo closer to a competitive wage,\" officers’ union president Mat Mustard in a press release. \"Recruitment and retention of quality Police Officers in the City of Vallejo must continue to be a priority.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Amid\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769266/the-long-storied-history-of-police-community-tension-in-vallejo\"> criticism over the handling of a recent string of fatal police shootings\u003c/a>, Vallejo has selected a new chief to steer its embattled police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city on Friday announced its selection of Shawny Williams to fill the role. Pending completion of a background check, he'll become the first black chief in the department’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams has served in the San Jose Police Department for more than 26 years. Since becoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpd.org/boi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deputy chief\u003c/a> in 2015, he has run the department's 190-person bureau of investigations. Williams holds a master's degree in organizational leadership and speaks Spanish fluently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11774183\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 246px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/williams.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11774183 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/williams.jpg 246w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/williams-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawny Williams \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of Vallejo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Deputy Chief Williams is a solid professional with a stellar reputation who received broad accolades from our interview panels,\" said Vallejo City Manager Greg Nyhoff in a press release. \"I am excited to have Chief Williams join our community and our leadership team. As 'Vallejo Unites' around our youth, our local job producing economic development opportunities, and our Police Department, I believe Chief Williams will be a very positive element in our future success.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, who is expected to start in November, will oversee a department of 173 full-time employees and 120 sworn officers. He will earn an annual base salary of up to $261,600, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams' appointment comes just months after the retirement of Chief Andrew Bidou, who stepped down in April following a string of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768852/one-night-two-narratives\">high-profile shootings of several black and brown men in the city.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, the department has faced intense scrutiny in response to the February killing of Willie McCoy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\">whom Vallejo police shot 55 times\u003c/a> after finding the 20-year-old unconscious in a Taco Bell parking lot. McCoy's family and other residents have repeatedly staged angry demonstrations at City Hall to protest the department's handling of the incident, demanding greater accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am humbled and honored by this opportunity to serve as your new Police Chief in Vallejo,\" Williams said in a press release. \"The position of police officer belongs to the people we serve. With that philosophy in mind, I look forward to participating in all aspects of the Vallejo community, building upon the Police Department's community policing and engagement efforts, and tackling challenges together. We must engage the hearts and minds of all residents, City employees, students, youth and the business leaders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community advocates, however, have been critical of the hiring process, accusing the city of not following through on its promise to be more transparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"vallejo-police-department\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was a total lack of transparency during the process, so most of us had no idea who was even being considered,\" said Melissa Nold, an attorney who has represented families of people shot and killed by Vallejo police officers. \"The community at large has no idea what his goals and values are, so all we can do is keep our fingers crossed that he truly understands the crisis we are facing in Vallejo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city said it made efforts to reach out to residents during the selection process, holding a community meeting on May 23 to better understand the community's priorities and inviting residents to complete an online survey. Six community members participated in the panel interviews to evaluate the top five candidates, the city said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED in June, Nyhoff acknowledged Vallejo residents were seeking someone to lead the department who could be held accountable and respond to the concerns of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They want someone who is committed to the city of Vallejo and its community,\" Nyhoff said. \"Someone who will hold themselves and the officers under their command accountable. Someone who is not afraid to make tough decisions, even if it’s unpopular.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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A report published in\u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31130-9/fulltext\"> a leading British medical journal found\u003c/a> police shootings on unarmed black men in America have spillover effects on the psychological and emotional well-being of black people living in those states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Vallejo, where three recent police shootings have caused an\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\"> uproar at City Hall,\u003c/a> police violence is impacting how residents view the place they call home — and what they’d like to see happen in their community moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our reporting on deadly police shootings has struck a nerve with our audience, especially those who live in Vallejo. Instead of city landmarks, some see spots where police violence occurred. Residents have written us to say they are frustrated but hopeful that police reform and social justice will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erika Crawford is a Vallejo native who now lives in Hayward.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother worked for the courts, and then my stepfather was a retired police officer — he was with the city of Vallejo for 17 years. So I heard a lot about that side of it, just kind of from day to day, him working on the streets and from my mom as cases would come through the courthouse. I grew up with that perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But much more now that just these incidents of police shootings have been coming out, and specifically with the series kind of hearing how things have unfolded in Vallejo, it’s kinda shifting. Because I’m black, I definitely understand the struggles and the bias on that end. But at the same time I understand the flip side, too, as far as law enforcement and how the criminal justice system works. It’s hard because I feel like I understand both sides; I know where both sides are coming from and it’s very frustrating, and there’s a lot of mistrust and fear on both sides, so I identify with both sides. It’s hard sifting through that, and really understand what’s happening in these situations. Who’s at fault? What did somebody do wrong here? Or what did somebody do wrong there? It’s kind of hard to pick that apart when I feel like, now especially, I know where both sides are coming from, and I know what’s contributing to it. It’s tough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brien Farrell is a Vallejo resident and former attorney who worked with the City of Santa Rosa.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a hot-tempered Irish guy. I have to walk out of the council chambers sometimes when I hear no one listening to the family members [of people shot by police]. I just can’t take it. And I’m a guy whose job was to make sure that business could be conducted at City Council meetings. These disruptions do unsettle everybody — they make everyone feel sick. And that’s not always the single purpose of the disturbances, but it’s one of the purposes, because nobody is listening. What can they do to get someone to listen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These events are not risk management or city budget events, they are catastrophic, tragic losses for families. And I know, from my work, how much harm results — [harm] to police officers who are involved in officer-involved shootings, for example, or use-of-force incidents. They are traumatized, too. Not in the same way, but there is serious trauma for officers also. We don’t want these events to occur, we want officers and community members to be safe. And there are those who will say ‘I’m with my officers come hell or high water.’ And the simple response is that: with great responsibility comes the necessity of full evaluation to understand whether we can find ways to reduce the risk of injury in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sharon McGriff-Payne is a historian who’s lived in Vallejo since the early 1950s.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What has concerned me is that it seems like a lot of really hurt feelings here in the community. I was at one of the City Council meetings a few weeks ago for another reason, but I was there and a lot of the families who have been involved in talking about this whole police issue were there, [too]. And there was a lot of just … anger. It’s the kind of anger that you can understand. My impression of this whole thing is that people are voicing their anger at these City Council meetings because I think they feel like they’re not being heard. 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Osby Davis, the mayor at the time, said negotiations with the unions reached the 11th hour before the city decided to file for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had an impact on the entire city, not just the police department,” said Davis, who served as Vallejo mayor for 10 years. The city lost employees as a result. At the police department, staffing for officers went from 126 to 77, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stopped putting any money into our streets and roads, no money into infrastructure, no raises for any employees,” Davis said. “We were just … in dire straits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citywide, businesses closed and people lost their homes. At the police department, there was an exodus of police officers, which put additional pressures on the ones who stayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to pick up the slack and the duties of others that were no longer present,” said retired VPD Sgt. Brent Garrick, who had several jobs throughout his 30-year career with the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the most dire years, Garrick was juggling more than one job at once. Officers began putting in a lot of overtime, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so you didn’t have a consistency and continuity within the department, and that produced a situation where, you know, I’d kind of describe it as a perfect storm,” he said. “You don’t have a good sense of direction, policy, procedure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Vallejo police officers at a City Council meeting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vallejo police officers at a City Council meeting. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city had less money to send officers to training outside of the department, Garrick said. Before bankruptcy, the department required its officers to attend firearms training upward of six times a year — significantly more than the state standard, he said. But budget cuts meant fewer trips to the range, said Garrick. Officers began to worry that the lack of training was creating a liability for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2011, Officer James Lowell Capoot was shot and killed in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember hearing some of the conversations: ‘Wow, you know, look what the city is doing to us, man they’re gonna get someone killed,’ ” Garrick said. “And sure enough, in 2011, that came to fruition, and people were really impacted by that and hurt by that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it was a very turbulent time, and almost painful to even think about, because as a result a lot of people feel that, you know, officers were out there on a killing spree, and that was so far from the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Bay's Series on Vallejo Police Shootings\" tag=\"vallejo-police-shootings\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, however, Vallejo experienced the deadliest year of police shootings in the last 14 years. In 2012, the city budgeted for about 85 police officers but Garrick said there were only around 76 cops patrolling the city, an all-time low for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staffing levels had a direct impact on officers in the field. There were fewer officers to call for backup. Garrick said that put officers in scary situations — often alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can imagine there was a fear factor that was going on,” he said. “Because the reality is you know we don’t know what’s behind that closed door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the department pointed to skyrocketing crime rates. Crimes did increase, almost 10 percent from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Vallejo, even with its smaller population, still had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\">more shootings in 2012\u003c/a> than big Bay Area cities also dealing with high crime rates. That year, Oakland had one fatal officer-involved shooting, and San Francisco had two. In Vallejo, there were six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo hasn’t had a year of police shootings that bad since then. So what makes this moment — when activists are showing up at City Hall to protest police violence again — different in Vallejo?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Only Way to Not See It Is to Close Your Eyes’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Melissa Nold, an attorney with the Law Offices of John Burris and a Vallejo native, said police body camera and bystander video has changed everything. Nold and her group have represented the families of people shot by Vallejo police in lawsuits against the city and the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s changing because now you have this objective thing,” Nold said. “So I think people are willing to say: You know what, they haven’t been as forthcoming as we would like them to have been in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769312\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"David Harrison (center) at a Vallejo City Council meeting on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison (center) at a Vallejo City Council meeting on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Videos have played critical roles in the public’s response to the police killings of people like Oscar Grant in Oakland, Eric Garner in New York and Walter Scott in North Charleston. They’ve led to a cultural awakening nationwide to the way black and brown people are disproportionately impacted by police violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nold said that awakening is happening in Vallejo with residents. But city leaders aren’t acting quickly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you not see the problem? The only way to not see it is to close your eyes,” said Nold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Nyhoff, Vallejo’s city manager, said the city is conducting risk analyses of its fire and police departments. The city hired the California-based consultant OIR Group to review the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to hear from the OIR Group on their expert observations before I make any statement or come to any conclusions regarding the extent of needed improvements,” Nyhoff wrote in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a June City Council meeting, Nyhoff told councilors that the number of police calls compared to the number of use-of-force incidents in each of the last three years don’t show a use-of-force problem in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, for example, Nyhoff said there were more than 69,000 calls made to Vallejo police. The same year, there were 150 use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those don’t seem like there’s excessive use of force, or a lot of use of force in our community,” he said. “That is such a tiny number when you think of how many times our officers interact with the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Beyond the Shootings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nold said problems with policing in Vallejo are costing the city — and taxpayers — money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Vallejo was paying so much in legal settlements related, in part, to cases against its police department that it impacted its relationship with the California Joint Powers Risk Management Authority — an agency that has effectively served as an insurance company for the city for about three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2017, documents from the authority show that Vallejo had become a liability. In a December 2017 meeting, the agency discussed how Vallejo’s losses are “large and disproportionate compared to the other members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Vallejo City Council meets on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vallejo City Council meets on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nyhoff said the Authority planned to charge more for its insurance because of “a lack of risk management oversight and accountability generally.” The city left that group and joined another insurance pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can they approve these multimillion-dollar settlements and never ever for one second look in the mirror and go, ‘Hey what’s going on?’ ” said Dan Russo, a criminal defense attorney in Vallejo since 1978. In 2018, one of his clients settled a case against the police department for $2.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we just unlucky? Are we just having a bad run of luck? Or is there some fundamental, basic problem that is more transcendent than a bad apple?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo said city leaders aren’t living up to their obligation and responsibility to hold its police officers accountable — and it’s not just when it comes to police shootings. There have also been allegations of harassment, false arrests, intimidation and racial profiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those calls I get every day,” said Melissa Nold, who sees these calls as examples of a department that is afraid of its community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brent Garrick, the retired Vallejo police officer, is also a Vallejo native. He said being from the city has served him well in his career, because officers who don’t understand the communities they serve carry around a certain level of fear. By the time Garrick left the department, he said just a few officers had gone to school or grew up in Vallejo, or had families in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nold said that kind of intimacy with the community is a matter of life or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just from a psychological perspective, it’s very difficult to kill people that you know,” Nold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Search for a New Police Chief\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou retired in June, and the city is looking for its next chief. The city has held at least one community forum to get input from residents about what they want from their next chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I have heard is the public wants a chief who is a good listener, who cares about this community and who is proud to represent the Vallejo Police Department as a leader,” Nyhoff, the city manager, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They also want someone who is a communicator and will get out in the public to talk about tough issues, learn about their problems and bring ideas to the table to collaborate with our community and unite us in the common goals of public safety. They are also looking for accountability from Department leadership and tough — even if unpopular — decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have been showing up to City Hall, making their case for transparency and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Alicia Saddler addressed the City Council, saying she wants to prevent what happened to her brother, Angel Ramos — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768675/going-against-the-polices-narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2017\u003c/a> — from happening to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you bring the right chief in, things can change. And our loved ones can get the justice, and nobody else’s family will have to feel the pain that me and all these other families have to feel,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported and produced by KQED’s local news podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a>. Click the “listen” button above to hear the episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to The Bay on any of your favorite podcast apps to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">Stitcher\u003c/a>, NPR One, or via \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">Alexa\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, however, Vallejo experienced the deadliest year of police shootings in the last 14 years. In 2012, the city budgeted for about 85 police officers but Garrick said there were only around 76 cops patrolling the city, an all-time low for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staffing levels had a direct impact on officers in the field. There were fewer officers to call for backup. Garrick said that put officers in scary situations — often alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can imagine there was a fear factor that was going on,” he said. “Because the reality is you know we don’t know what’s behind that closed door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the department pointed to skyrocketing crime rates. Crimes did increase, almost 10 percent from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Vallejo, even with its smaller population, still had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\">more shootings in 2012\u003c/a> than big Bay Area cities also dealing with high crime rates. That year, Oakland had one fatal officer-involved shooting, and San Francisco had two. In Vallejo, there were six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo hasn’t had a year of police shootings that bad since then. So what makes this moment — when activists are showing up at City Hall to protest police violence again — different in Vallejo?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Only Way to Not See It Is to Close Your Eyes’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Melissa Nold, an attorney with the Law Offices of John Burris and a Vallejo native, said police body camera and bystander video has changed everything. Nold and her group have represented the families of people shot by Vallejo police in lawsuits against the city and the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s changing because now you have this objective thing,” Nold said. “So I think people are willing to say: You know what, they haven’t been as forthcoming as we would like them to have been in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769312\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"David Harrison (center) at a Vallejo City Council meeting on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison (center) at a Vallejo City Council meeting on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Videos have played critical roles in the public’s response to the police killings of people like Oscar Grant in Oakland, Eric Garner in New York and Walter Scott in North Charleston. They’ve led to a cultural awakening nationwide to the way black and brown people are disproportionately impacted by police violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nold said that awakening is happening in Vallejo with residents. But city leaders aren’t acting quickly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you not see the problem? The only way to not see it is to close your eyes,” said Nold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Nyhoff, Vallejo’s city manager, said the city is conducting risk analyses of its fire and police departments. The city hired the California-based consultant OIR Group to review the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to hear from the OIR Group on their expert observations before I make any statement or come to any conclusions regarding the extent of needed improvements,” Nyhoff wrote in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a June City Council meeting, Nyhoff told councilors that the number of police calls compared to the number of use-of-force incidents in each of the last three years don’t show a use-of-force problem in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, for example, Nyhoff said there were more than 69,000 calls made to Vallejo police. The same year, there were 150 use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those don’t seem like there’s excessive use of force, or a lot of use of force in our community,” he said. “That is such a tiny number when you think of how many times our officers interact with the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Beyond the Shootings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nold said problems with policing in Vallejo are costing the city — and taxpayers — money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Vallejo was paying so much in legal settlements related, in part, to cases against its police department that it impacted its relationship with the California Joint Powers Risk Management Authority — an agency that has effectively served as an insurance company for the city for about three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2017, documents from the authority show that Vallejo had become a liability. In a December 2017 meeting, the agency discussed how Vallejo’s losses are “large and disproportionate compared to the other members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Vallejo City Council meets on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vallejo City Council meets on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nyhoff said the Authority planned to charge more for its insurance because of “a lack of risk management oversight and accountability generally.” The city left that group and joined another insurance pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can they approve these multimillion-dollar settlements and never ever for one second look in the mirror and go, ‘Hey what’s going on?’ ” said Dan Russo, a criminal defense attorney in Vallejo since 1978. In 2018, one of his clients settled a case against the police department for $2.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we just unlucky? Are we just having a bad run of luck? Or is there some fundamental, basic problem that is more transcendent than a bad apple?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo said city leaders aren’t living up to their obligation and responsibility to hold its police officers accountable — and it’s not just when it comes to police shootings. There have also been allegations of harassment, false arrests, intimidation and racial profiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those calls I get every day,” said Melissa Nold, who sees these calls as examples of a department that is afraid of its community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brent Garrick, the retired Vallejo police officer, is also a Vallejo native. He said being from the city has served him well in his career, because officers who don’t understand the communities they serve carry around a certain level of fear. By the time Garrick left the department, he said just a few officers had gone to school or grew up in Vallejo, or had families in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nold said that kind of intimacy with the community is a matter of life or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just from a psychological perspective, it’s very difficult to kill people that you know,” Nold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Search for a New Police Chief\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou retired in June, and the city is looking for its next chief. The city has held at least one community forum to get input from residents about what they want from their next chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I have heard is the public wants a chief who is a good listener, who cares about this community and who is proud to represent the Vallejo Police Department as a leader,” Nyhoff, the city manager, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They also want someone who is a communicator and will get out in the public to talk about tough issues, learn about their problems and bring ideas to the table to collaborate with our community and unite us in the common goals of public safety. They are also looking for accountability from Department leadership and tough — even if unpopular — decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have been showing up to City Hall, making their case for transparency and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Alicia Saddler addressed the City Council, saying she wants to prevent what happened to her brother, Angel Ramos — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768675/going-against-the-polices-narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2017\u003c/a> — from happening to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you bring the right chief in, things can change. And our loved ones can get the justice, and nobody else’s family will have to feel the pain that me and all these other families have to feel,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported and produced by KQED’s local news podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a>. Click the “listen” button above to hear the episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to The Bay on any of your favorite podcast apps to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">Stitcher\u003c/a>, NPR One, or via \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">Alexa\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is part II of The Bay’s three-part podcast series on policing in Vallejo. Here is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\">part I\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769266/the-long-storied-history-of-police-community-tension-in-vallejo\">part III\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t a quaint little green corner home off a busy street in Vallejo, Angel Ramos' family has opened the door to random strangers mourning his death. In 2017, Vallejo police shot and killed the 21-year-old in the backyard of this house, where his mother still lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many people around here know him,\" said Alicia Saddler, Ramos' older sister. \"He stopped and talked to everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the shooting, Ramos' family has pieced together a much different narrative from the police's story of what happened the night he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos' family has gone through what other families of those more recently killed by police in Vallejo are going through now — a frustrating search for information about the killings of their loved ones, and an uphill battle against an institution we're meant to trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Hear More on The Bay\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay/,Subscribe to the podcast\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/TheBay_1200x6301.png\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If [the police] were a regular person that kills somebody, they would be in jail right now awaiting trial,\" Saddler said. \"And here, no matter what, they get found innocent, and the evidence is like right there in your face and it doesn't matter. They still don't get in trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jan. 23, 2017\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Solano County District Attorney's Office deemed the shooting of Angel Ramos a lawful shooting by Vallejo police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It happened at a family gathering the evening of Jan. 23, 2017. Saddler, her kids, two siblings and their partners were there — roughly 10 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each of us didn’t really have a lot of friends,\" Saddler said. \"We just hung out with each other, and that was something we did every weekend, even during the week. We would just hang out, drink, watch movies, and it was never a party.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said a family fight had broken out, and her brothers, including Ramos, got involved. Police say they responded to calls from neighbors about a \"disturbance involving a large party of subjects fighting with weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, Officer Zachary Jacobsen and Matthew Samida arrived on the scene shortly after 12:30 a.m. and ran over to the backyard fence. Above them, about 15 to 20 meters away, was a second-story wooden porch attached to the back of the house where the fight broke out. The officers announced themselves, and told everyone to break it up. No one listened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember screaming 'please don't shoot,' \" Saddler said. \"I could see my kids standing in the doorway, and I was like crying and screaming for them not to shoot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Officer Jacobsen had unholstered his service weapon and was watching Ramos. According to the DA’s report, Jacobsen said he saw Angel come rushing toward the other person in the fight, and that he saw Angel kneeling or “hovering” on top of him. Officer Jacobsen said he had an unobstructed view of Angel with a large kitchen knife, making stabbing motions toward the person underneath him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was at that point that I thought the only thing I could do to save this guy’s life was to shoot the man who was trying to stab him,\" Jacobsen told investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shot Ramos four times, once at the base of his neck and three times in the chest, according to the DA's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My 9-year-old seen, he heard the shots, and then saw Angel hit the ground,\" Saddler said. \"He immediately called my mom and he was like, 'Granny, I think the cops just killed Angel cuz I heard gunshots and he dropped to the floor, and there’s a bunch of blood coming from him.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police reports show Saddler was taken into custody at the Solano County Jail for resisting arrest and refusing to move out of officers' way after the shooting. It was in jail that she would learn that her brother died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not 'I’m sorry' or nothing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Saddler lays out a blanket with photos of her brother, Angel Ramos, and their mother.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Saddler lays out a blanket with photos of her brother, Angel Ramos, and their mother. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>No Sympathy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Saddler's family was in shock. Their mom had moved the family from Oakland to Vallejo in 2011 because she worried about street violence. Vallejo, she thought, would be safer, said Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things were good, like they didn’t get into no trouble out here,\" she said. \"They were going to school. Once they got older, working. Then, the cops killed my brother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release from the day of the shooting, Vallejo police said, \"The 21 year old male was holding a knife and presented himself as an immediate and lethal threat to the victim down on his back. One of the officers recognized the threat to the victim and fired his duty weapon at the suspect to stop the threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Bay's Series on Vallejo Police Shootings\" tag=\"vallejo-police-shootings\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler and her family contend that Angel wasn't holding a knife when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after the shooting, the family began showing up at Vallejo City Hall demanding answers from the city. They wanted to know the names of the officers who shot Ramos. They wanted to see officer body-camera footage and the autopsy report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said the family met with then-Police Chief Andrew Bidou on March 20, 2017, in the city attorney’s office to view the body-camera footage. But Saddler said none of the videos show the shooting itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just a whole bunch of nothing, basically,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said police would stop and start the video to highlight certain moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know like, to try and put another narrative in our own head,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo police declined an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family hasn’t seen any footage of the actual shooting. Melissa Nold, the attorney representing the family in a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Vallejo and Officer Zachary Jacobsen, said that footage mysteriously doesn’t exist. According to Nold, Jacobsen — the only officer who shot Ramos — didn't have his camera on that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family obtained dozens of videos from other officers who responded to the scene before and after the shooting. But none of the officers' lapel cameras captured the actual shooting, according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler and her family didn't finish watching the footage in that meeting with the police chief. They were frustrated with how police talked to them. The family got up and walked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My brother is still dead. You still show somebody some type of sympathy. Like, we just lost our loved one.\" said Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A remembrance for Angel Ramos outside the home of his mother in Vallejo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A remembrance for Angel Ramos outside the home of his mother in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What Knife?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alicia and her family have always been skeptical of the Vallejo Police Department's narrative of what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason is that another cop who was there — Officer Jeremy Callinan — told investigators he didn’t see Ramos with a knife. In investigative documents, Callinan described hand motions that looked like a “hammer strike” that led him to believe Ramos had a knife when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though Officer Callinan said he didn’t see a knife, he still believed Ramos had posed a “lethal threat.” He told investigators that if Officer Jacobsen hadn’t shot Ramos, he would have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Alicia Saddler\"]'I can’t just be out here fighting for Angel. It's these other people now. I just decided it was time to do what I have to do to fight for families.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, five knives were recovered from the home. Three of them were gathered from the kitchen. It's unclear from the police report where the other two were found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews Vallejo police Detective Rob Greenberg conducted on Feb. 3, 2017, with two firefighters who responded to the scene that night, neither said they saw any weapons near Ramos when they went to attend to his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the alleged victim who Ramos was described as attacking with a knife the night of the shooting — Deshon Wilson — is cited in the family’s lawsuit against the city, denying the official police version of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The purported victim, D.W., steadfastly denies the offical [SIC] version of the events and reports that Angel Ramos was clearly and obviously unarmed when Officer Jacobsen inexplicably opened fire. The CITY’s official versions of the event are belied by the inciden [SIC] scene, physical evidence, placement of Decedent’s injury and physics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Saddler addresses Vallejo City Councilmembers at a meeting on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-1200x846.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Saddler addresses Vallejo City Council members at a meeting on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Becoming an Activist\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Greg Nyhoff, Vallejo's city manager, wouldn't say whether there is a problem with policing in Vallejo. Nyhoff said many cities are currently struggling with providing police services and that officers in Vallejo are operating with limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has hired the independent California-based OIR Group to assess the police department's police practices and procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been working in local government long enough to know there are lots of complexities and challenges that need to be considered before one concludes reform is required,\" Nyhoff said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would like for residents to understand that the City is listening, and also that the City is very pointed on taking steps to address the concerns that have been raised and to continuously improve — not only with the Police Department — but with the organization as a whole.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler, meanwhile, has taken up the role of an activist — a role she never thought she'd play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can’t just be out here fighting for Angel,\" she said. \"It's these other people now. I just decided it was time to do what I have to do to fight for families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the shooting of Ramos in 2017, there was the shooting of Ronell Foster in 2018 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willie McCoy\u003c/a>, who was shot earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler's family and their supporters have been critical of city leaders for not speaking up about shootings by its police officers. She also said her family has been intimidated by Vallejo police since speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told City Council members at a meeting in June that she'd stopped at the corner of Nebraska and Sonoma streets in Vallejo, when she looked over and saw an officer pointing at her and other officers laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are they laughing because Jacobsen is getting away with murdering my brother?\" she asked council members. \"I wanna know what is so funny?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight to change the narrative around her brother's death has taken a toll on Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has moved out of the house where the shooting happened. After the shooting, she felt guilty facing her mom. She felt like if they’d all just stopped fighting that night, police would have never showed up. On this past April 25, Alicia got a chance to view more police body-camera footage from that night that her lawyers obtained, showing something she hadn't seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I blamed myself like: How come you didn't help him? How could you be that drunk and not know that your brother was hurt?\" she said. \"But in the video that we watched, I was screaming for them to call the ambulance to help my brother. So that was like a big weight off my chest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler won't leave Vallejo, she said, until her brother's case is over. She said she doesn't want the police to feel like they won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If [the police] were a regular person that kills somebody, they would be in jail right now awaiting trial,\" Saddler said. \"And here, no matter what, they get found innocent, and the evidence is like right there in your face and it doesn't matter. They still don't get in trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jan. 23, 2017\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Solano County District Attorney's Office deemed the shooting of Angel Ramos a lawful shooting by Vallejo police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It happened at a family gathering the evening of Jan. 23, 2017. Saddler, her kids, two siblings and their partners were there — roughly 10 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each of us didn’t really have a lot of friends,\" Saddler said. \"We just hung out with each other, and that was something we did every weekend, even during the week. We would just hang out, drink, watch movies, and it was never a party.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said a family fight had broken out, and her brothers, including Ramos, got involved. Police say they responded to calls from neighbors about a \"disturbance involving a large party of subjects fighting with weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, Officer Zachary Jacobsen and Matthew Samida arrived on the scene shortly after 12:30 a.m. and ran over to the backyard fence. Above them, about 15 to 20 meters away, was a second-story wooden porch attached to the back of the house where the fight broke out. The officers announced themselves, and told everyone to break it up. No one listened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember screaming 'please don't shoot,' \" Saddler said. \"I could see my kids standing in the doorway, and I was like crying and screaming for them not to shoot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Officer Jacobsen had unholstered his service weapon and was watching Ramos. According to the DA’s report, Jacobsen said he saw Angel come rushing toward the other person in the fight, and that he saw Angel kneeling or “hovering” on top of him. Officer Jacobsen said he had an unobstructed view of Angel with a large kitchen knife, making stabbing motions toward the person underneath him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was at that point that I thought the only thing I could do to save this guy’s life was to shoot the man who was trying to stab him,\" Jacobsen told investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shot Ramos four times, once at the base of his neck and three times in the chest, according to the DA's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My 9-year-old seen, he heard the shots, and then saw Angel hit the ground,\" Saddler said. \"He immediately called my mom and he was like, 'Granny, I think the cops just killed Angel cuz I heard gunshots and he dropped to the floor, and there’s a bunch of blood coming from him.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police reports show Saddler was taken into custody at the Solano County Jail for resisting arrest and refusing to move out of officers' way after the shooting. It was in jail that she would learn that her brother died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not 'I’m sorry' or nothing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Saddler lays out a blanket with photos of her brother, Angel Ramos, and their mother.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Saddler lays out a blanket with photos of her brother, Angel Ramos, and their mother. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>No Sympathy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Saddler's family was in shock. Their mom had moved the family from Oakland to Vallejo in 2011 because she worried about street violence. Vallejo, she thought, would be safer, said Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things were good, like they didn’t get into no trouble out here,\" she said. \"They were going to school. Once they got older, working. Then, the cops killed my brother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release from the day of the shooting, Vallejo police said, \"The 21 year old male was holding a knife and presented himself as an immediate and lethal threat to the victim down on his back. One of the officers recognized the threat to the victim and fired his duty weapon at the suspect to stop the threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler and her family contend that Angel wasn't holding a knife when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after the shooting, the family began showing up at Vallejo City Hall demanding answers from the city. They wanted to know the names of the officers who shot Ramos. They wanted to see officer body-camera footage and the autopsy report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said the family met with then-Police Chief Andrew Bidou on March 20, 2017, in the city attorney’s office to view the body-camera footage. But Saddler said none of the videos show the shooting itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just a whole bunch of nothing, basically,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said police would stop and start the video to highlight certain moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know like, to try and put another narrative in our own head,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo police declined an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family hasn’t seen any footage of the actual shooting. Melissa Nold, the attorney representing the family in a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Vallejo and Officer Zachary Jacobsen, said that footage mysteriously doesn’t exist. According to Nold, Jacobsen — the only officer who shot Ramos — didn't have his camera on that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family obtained dozens of videos from other officers who responded to the scene before and after the shooting. But none of the officers' lapel cameras captured the actual shooting, according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler and her family didn't finish watching the footage in that meeting with the police chief. They were frustrated with how police talked to them. The family got up and walked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My brother is still dead. You still show somebody some type of sympathy. Like, we just lost our loved one.\" said Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A remembrance for Angel Ramos outside the home of his mother in Vallejo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A remembrance for Angel Ramos outside the home of his mother in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What Knife?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alicia and her family have always been skeptical of the Vallejo Police Department's narrative of what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason is that another cop who was there — Officer Jeremy Callinan — told investigators he didn’t see Ramos with a knife. In investigative documents, Callinan described hand motions that looked like a “hammer strike” that led him to believe Ramos had a knife when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though Officer Callinan said he didn’t see a knife, he still believed Ramos had posed a “lethal threat.” He told investigators that if Officer Jacobsen hadn’t shot Ramos, he would have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The CITY’s official versions of the event are belied by the inciden [SIC] scene, physical evidence, placement of Decedent’s injury and physics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Saddler addresses Vallejo City Councilmembers at a meeting on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-1200x846.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Saddler addresses Vallejo City Council members at a meeting on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Becoming an Activist\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Greg Nyhoff, Vallejo's city manager, wouldn't say whether there is a problem with policing in Vallejo. Nyhoff said many cities are currently struggling with providing police services and that officers in Vallejo are operating with limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has hired the independent California-based OIR Group to assess the police department's police practices and procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been working in local government long enough to know there are lots of complexities and challenges that need to be considered before one concludes reform is required,\" Nyhoff said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would like for residents to understand that the City is listening, and also that the City is very pointed on taking steps to address the concerns that have been raised and to continuously improve — not only with the Police Department — but with the organization as a whole.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler, meanwhile, has taken up the role of an activist — a role she never thought she'd play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can’t just be out here fighting for Angel,\" she said. \"It's these other people now. I just decided it was time to do what I have to do to fight for families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the shooting of Ramos in 2017, there was the shooting of Ronell Foster in 2018 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willie McCoy\u003c/a>, who was shot earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler's family and their supporters have been critical of city leaders for not speaking up about shootings by its police officers. She also said her family has been intimidated by Vallejo police since speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told City Council members at a meeting in June that she'd stopped at the corner of Nebraska and Sonoma streets in Vallejo, when she looked over and saw an officer pointing at her and other officers laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are they laughing because Jacobsen is getting away with murdering my brother?\" she asked council members. \"I wanna know what is so funny?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight to change the narrative around her brother's death has taken a toll on Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has moved out of the house where the shooting happened. After the shooting, she felt guilty facing her mom. She felt like if they’d all just stopped fighting that night, police would have never showed up. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is part I of The Bay’s three-part podcast series on policing in Vallejo. Here is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768675/going-against-the-polices-narrative\">part II\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769266/the-long-storied-history-of-police-community-tension-in-vallejo\">part III\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Willie McCoy became the latest name behind a police accountability movement in Vallejo, he was a rising young rapper who made music that was, in part, about what it meant to him to be a young black man in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on Feb. 9, six officers fired 55 bullets at McCoy in a Taco Bell parking lot. McCoy appeared to be asleep in his car. He died just before his 21st birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His death is one of about 21 fatal shootings by Vallejo police since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a reminder of soon as you get close to cracking the stratosphere for a little bit of success, there’s somebody right there to put you back in your place — this is where you belong boy,” said David Harrison, McCoy’s older cousin. “We want to unify the people to say: no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he was killed, McCoy wanted to make music about police brutality, being pulled over by the police, the violence he saw in his community, but also the joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music that he made was just all about the struggle, and trying to identify himself with everyone that walked in the same footsteps as him,” said Damariee Cole, McCoy’s nephew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has a skill, and his skill was music,” Cole said. “He wanted everybody to understand his background and where he came from; his struggle, and letting everybody know that, you know, you can come out of poverty and be something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy grew up in Sacramento and Vallejo. He was in Sacramento until his father died of mesothelioma when he was about 11 years old. He moved to Vallejo to live with his mom. About two months later, she died of breast cancer, said Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a good culture to him you know,” Harrison said. “Willie was raised by the village by all of the family and the whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy’s family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit for wrongful death against the city of Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve also joined a chorus of families of people shot by police in Vallejo who show up at City Hall demanding police officers be held accountable by city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no one watching the watcher,” Harrison said. “There’s no policing the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Shooting\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vallejo police received a call at approximately 10:36 p.m. on Feb. 9 from a Taco Bell employee. He was calling about a person in a vehicle unresponsive to car horn honks in the drive thru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police responded to check on the welfare of the driver. When police arrived, they said the driver was unresponsive — with a gun on his lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768040\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 329px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11768040\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x1813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x1813.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-160x284.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-800x1422.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-675x1200.jpg 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison (left) with his cousin Willie McCoy (right) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Harrison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police would later explain that officers didn’t try to wake McCoy up when they arrived on scene. They requested backup and came up with a plan: One officer would open the door, while another grabbed the handgun. But police said the doors were locked, and the car was in drive. While they worked to block his car with two patrol cars, McCoy started to wake up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The driver looked at the officers, and the officers began to yell commands to include ‘keep your hands up, show me your hands,’ ” said Sgt. Jeff Tai in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeNg9kOjV0\">a video press release after the shooting\u003c/a>. “The driver suddenly reached down for the firearm, and at this point, six officers fire their duty weapons at the officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 11:00 p.m. the night of the shooting, Harrison got a call from one of his cousins. Willie had been shot in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison and his dad picked up family members in Oakland and Berkeley and headed for the Taco Bell on Admiral Callaghan Lane. There, they saw McCoy’s silver Mercedes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison said it took a while to learn whether McCoy was in the car or not. Police weren’t giving them much information and McCoy had a tendency to let people borrow his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was cold and drizzling. Harrison said about eight officers lined up in front of police tape, blocking access to the scene. Harrison and his family faced them. One of his cousins approached an officer who said he could only share one thing with the family: “We can’t tell you anything,” Harrison recalled the officer saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department has, so far, declined requests for a sit-down interview. City officials have said it is difficult to answer case-specific questions, in part because of the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison doesn’t remember how long the family waited before confirming it was McCoy — it felt like an eternity. They sat there until they saw a tow truck come in to pull McCoy’s car away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we seen all the bullets it was confirmed,” Harrison said. “They said the police shot him. And when he said that I looked at my cousin I said ‘Cuz, they executed him.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s family began a desperate search for answers: Why was McCoy shot? What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two of the officers involved in McCoy’s death have been involved in police shootings before. Among them was Ryan McMahon, who shot and killed an unarmed black man who was stopped for riding his bike without a light in 2018. Mark Thompson was involved in a police shooting in 2012. The other four officers involved in McCoy’s shooting are Collin Eaton, Bryan Glick, Jordan Patzer and Anthony Romero-Cano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All officers have since been deemed able to return to their regular duties, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/cms/One.aspx?portalId=13506&pageId=15286049&portletInstanceId=349184\">according to the police department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Search for Answers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since the shooting, David Harrison and McCoy’s family have been at city council meetings, rallies and anywhere else to tell McCoy’s story and to get information about his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two months after the shooting, VPD released all six angles of the shooting from each officer in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=589&v=i5aa_7fDvnE\">a single video\u003c/a>. The clearest view of the inside of the car came from the camera of an officer standing directly in front of the driver’s side window. VPD slowed down that video to show the moment McCoy was purported to have reached for a gun. The video is not clear enough to make out a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 986px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11768017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1.jpg 986w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison, Willie McCoy’s cousin, speaking at a Vallejo City Council meeting June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harrison doesn’t believe the police’s version of events. If police say they shot his cousin because he reached for a gun, he wants proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police narrative was that Willie had a gun on his lap and they feared for their lives, and he reached for the gun and so they had to initially shoot him,” Harrison said. “But after seeing the video, hey look, there’s no gun. I don’t see him pointing a gun at nobody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, 2019, Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6174135-MCCOY-COMPLAINT.html\">a federal civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city of Vallejo, its city manager, police chief and six officers involved in McCoy’s death. Burris is seeking a federal court to monitor VPD compliance with civil rights law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Vallejo Police Department’s unconstitutional policing has become so dire and widespread that the City’s residents live in terror of the police department,” the lawsuit states. “Despite being on notice of their well-documented history of violence and terror, the City of Vallejo refuses to acknowledge or remedy their failure to supervise, discipline or retrain their officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happened to the Music\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, when Damariee Cole is driving in his car, he puts on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7doj95ElY\">a song with McCoy on the track\u003c/a> and cries. He doesn’t always tell other family members, but it hurts. Since McCoy’s death, members of his rap groups have struggled to stay motivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Willie was a leader,” he said. “Sometimes we didn’t want to do projects or go to the studio or write rhymes. Willie was always writing when there was no beat. He would be right in his car and he would have a full song already written out with no beat. So, when you lose a leader with somebody that’s given us that extra motivation, you know, it’s hard to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard to be around everyone else in the group. It’s a reminder of who’s not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Willie was there, we always was one,” he said. “Now it’s like when we get together, it just reminds us so much of Willie that all of us just doing our own thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison believed McCoy was going to take their family to new heights — he was on a better path in life, studying music at Laney College in Oakland. Just as soon as things were on the up and up, he was killed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harrison pulls from the strength of his ancestors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768043\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 357px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11768043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-1020x1210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-160x190.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-800x949.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-1012x1200.jpg 1012w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie McCoy \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Harrison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harrison and McCoy and their fathers are descendants of slavery and Jim Crow — Mississippi natives — who joined the migration to Oakland and the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Harrison, this shooting, the police’s narrative, the city’s response to him and his family, or lack thereof, is the same systemic racism his family escaped, manifesting itself in a different form. He has every intention of fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Justice, No Peace\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Harrison wants to see officers prosecuted in Vallejo. He wants a clear message sent to other officers: that there are consequences for killing people. Nationwide, that’s rare. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/us/police-involved-shooting-cases/index.html\">Rarely do officers face legal consequences for killing people on the job\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, McCoy’s family has continued to show up in protest at Vallejo City Hall, demanding city leaders hold its police force accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been an uphill battle; Harrison hasn’t been satisfied with the response from city leaders, including the mayor. Harrison came to protest a Council meeting on June 25, in which councilmembers were scheduled to honor outgoing Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou, who retired in the middle of growing protest against the department. Mayor Bob Sampayan \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2019/03/13/vallejo-police-chief-andrew-bidou-announces-retirement/\">told the Vallejo Times-Herald\u003c/a> that his retirement had nothing to do with growing criticism of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and my family have come to these meetings time and time again,” Harrison told councilmembers in June. “But, I don’t think that it’s really fair that some of these constituents that come here, and they get congratulated on this side; you’ll speak after that and say something. And I was just waiting for one of you guys to say, ‘Hey, I seen what happened and it was horrible.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo councilmembers have declined or not responded to interview requests. City Manager Greg Nyoff did not want to sit for an interview, but responded to a set of questions via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can only begin to imagine how difficult it is to lose a family member in this way,” Nyoff wrote. “Unfortunately, the communications between family members and the City thus far have primarily been during public comment at council meetings, which is not the best venue for productive interactions on an emotionally laden topic such as this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11768275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_9704-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Grant’s Uncle Bobby speaking at a picnic in Oakland honoring Willie McCoy on Aug. 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nyoff invited the families to attend community forums he said the city is planning with the help of the federal Department of Justice’s Community Relations Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day our police officers head out to serve this community with the goal of doing the right thing, doing right by the public and ensuring our residents and our police officers end their day safely,” Nyoff wrote in an email. “Fatal interactions are a tragedy for all involved — though most clearly for the deceased and their loved ones. Each case needs to be reviewed, evaluated and investigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie McCoy’s family is not alone in their fight at Vallejo City Hall for police reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The families of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Vallejo-cop-wanted-to-educate-a-bicyclist-13830311.php\">Ronnell Foster\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Vallejo-police-fatally-shoot-man-during-fight-at-10877000.php\">Angel Ramos\u003c/a>, a young Latino man shot by police in his mom’s backyard in 2017, have been showing up to City Hall, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\">the worst year for police shootings in Vallejo\u003c/a>, it was the families of victims like 23-year-old Mario Romero. Those families have been putting up this fight for police accountability in Vallejo before anyone recently started paying close attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want it to happen to another young African or another young Latino, Harrison said. “Not on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>This story was reported and produced by KQED’s local news podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a>. Click the “listen” button above to hear the episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Subscribe to The Bay on any of your favorite podcast apps to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">Stitcher\u003c/a>, NPR One, or via \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">Alexa\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he was killed, McCoy wanted to make music about police brutality, being pulled over by the police, the violence he saw in his community, but also the joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music that he made was just all about the struggle, and trying to identify himself with everyone that walked in the same footsteps as him,” said Damariee Cole, McCoy’s nephew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has a skill, and his skill was music,” Cole said. “He wanted everybody to understand his background and where he came from; his struggle, and letting everybody know that, you know, you can come out of poverty and be something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy grew up in Sacramento and Vallejo. He was in Sacramento until his father died of mesothelioma when he was about 11 years old. He moved to Vallejo to live with his mom. About two months later, she died of breast cancer, said Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a good culture to him you know,” Harrison said. “Willie was raised by the village by all of the family and the whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy’s family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit for wrongful death against the city of Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve also joined a chorus of families of people shot by police in Vallejo who show up at City Hall demanding police officers be held accountable by city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no one watching the watcher,” Harrison said. “There’s no policing the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Shooting\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vallejo police received a call at approximately 10:36 p.m. on Feb. 9 from a Taco Bell employee. He was calling about a person in a vehicle unresponsive to car horn honks in the drive thru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police responded to check on the welfare of the driver. When police arrived, they said the driver was unresponsive — with a gun on his lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768040\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 329px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11768040\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x1813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x1813.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-160x284.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-800x1422.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-675x1200.jpg 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison (left) with his cousin Willie McCoy (right) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Harrison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police would later explain that officers didn’t try to wake McCoy up when they arrived on scene. They requested backup and came up with a plan: One officer would open the door, while another grabbed the handgun. But police said the doors were locked, and the car was in drive. While they worked to block his car with two patrol cars, McCoy started to wake up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The driver looked at the officers, and the officers began to yell commands to include ‘keep your hands up, show me your hands,’ ” said Sgt. Jeff Tai in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeNg9kOjV0\">a video press release after the shooting\u003c/a>. “The driver suddenly reached down for the firearm, and at this point, six officers fire their duty weapons at the officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 11:00 p.m. the night of the shooting, Harrison got a call from one of his cousins. Willie had been shot in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison and his dad picked up family members in Oakland and Berkeley and headed for the Taco Bell on Admiral Callaghan Lane. There, they saw McCoy’s silver Mercedes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison said it took a while to learn whether McCoy was in the car or not. Police weren’t giving them much information and McCoy had a tendency to let people borrow his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was cold and drizzling. Harrison said about eight officers lined up in front of police tape, blocking access to the scene. Harrison and his family faced them. One of his cousins approached an officer who said he could only share one thing with the family: “We can’t tell you anything,” Harrison recalled the officer saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department has, so far, declined requests for a sit-down interview. City officials have said it is difficult to answer case-specific questions, in part because of the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison doesn’t remember how long the family waited before confirming it was McCoy — it felt like an eternity. They sat there until they saw a tow truck come in to pull McCoy’s car away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we seen all the bullets it was confirmed,” Harrison said. “They said the police shot him. And when he said that I looked at my cousin I said ‘Cuz, they executed him.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s family began a desperate search for answers: Why was McCoy shot? What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two of the officers involved in McCoy’s death have been involved in police shootings before. Among them was Ryan McMahon, who shot and killed an unarmed black man who was stopped for riding his bike without a light in 2018. Mark Thompson was involved in a police shooting in 2012. The other four officers involved in McCoy’s shooting are Collin Eaton, Bryan Glick, Jordan Patzer and Anthony Romero-Cano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All officers have since been deemed able to return to their regular duties, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/cms/One.aspx?portalId=13506&pageId=15286049&portletInstanceId=349184\">according to the police department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Search for Answers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since the shooting, David Harrison and McCoy’s family have been at city council meetings, rallies and anywhere else to tell McCoy’s story and to get information about his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two months after the shooting, VPD released all six angles of the shooting from each officer in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=589&v=i5aa_7fDvnE\">a single video\u003c/a>. The clearest view of the inside of the car came from the camera of an officer standing directly in front of the driver’s side window. VPD slowed down that video to show the moment McCoy was purported to have reached for a gun. The video is not clear enough to make out a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 986px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11768017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1.jpg 986w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison, Willie McCoy’s cousin, speaking at a Vallejo City Council meeting June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harrison doesn’t believe the police’s version of events. If police say they shot his cousin because he reached for a gun, he wants proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police narrative was that Willie had a gun on his lap and they feared for their lives, and he reached for the gun and so they had to initially shoot him,” Harrison said. “But after seeing the video, hey look, there’s no gun. I don’t see him pointing a gun at nobody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, 2019, Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6174135-MCCOY-COMPLAINT.html\">a federal civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city of Vallejo, its city manager, police chief and six officers involved in McCoy’s death. Burris is seeking a federal court to monitor VPD compliance with civil rights law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Vallejo Police Department’s unconstitutional policing has become so dire and widespread that the City’s residents live in terror of the police department,” the lawsuit states. “Despite being on notice of their well-documented history of violence and terror, the City of Vallejo refuses to acknowledge or remedy their failure to supervise, discipline or retrain their officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happened to the Music\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, when Damariee Cole is driving in his car, he puts on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7doj95ElY\">a song with McCoy on the track\u003c/a> and cries. He doesn’t always tell other family members, but it hurts. Since McCoy’s death, members of his rap groups have struggled to stay motivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Willie was a leader,” he said. “Sometimes we didn’t want to do projects or go to the studio or write rhymes. Willie was always writing when there was no beat. He would be right in his car and he would have a full song already written out with no beat. So, when you lose a leader with somebody that’s given us that extra motivation, you know, it’s hard to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard to be around everyone else in the group. It’s a reminder of who’s not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Willie was there, we always was one,” he said. “Now it’s like when we get together, it just reminds us so much of Willie that all of us just doing our own thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison believed McCoy was going to take their family to new heights — he was on a better path in life, studying music at Laney College in Oakland. Just as soon as things were on the up and up, he was killed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harrison pulls from the strength of his ancestors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768043\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 357px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11768043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-1020x1210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-160x190.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-800x949.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-1012x1200.jpg 1012w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie McCoy \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Harrison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harrison and McCoy and their fathers are descendants of slavery and Jim Crow — Mississippi natives — who joined the migration to Oakland and the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Harrison, this shooting, the police’s narrative, the city’s response to him and his family, or lack thereof, is the same systemic racism his family escaped, manifesting itself in a different form. He has every intention of fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Justice, No Peace\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Harrison wants to see officers prosecuted in Vallejo. He wants a clear message sent to other officers: that there are consequences for killing people. Nationwide, that’s rare. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/us/police-involved-shooting-cases/index.html\">Rarely do officers face legal consequences for killing people on the job\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, McCoy’s family has continued to show up in protest at Vallejo City Hall, demanding city leaders hold its police force accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been an uphill battle; Harrison hasn’t been satisfied with the response from city leaders, including the mayor. Harrison came to protest a Council meeting on June 25, in which councilmembers were scheduled to honor outgoing Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou, who retired in the middle of growing protest against the department. Mayor Bob Sampayan \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2019/03/13/vallejo-police-chief-andrew-bidou-announces-retirement/\">told the Vallejo Times-Herald\u003c/a> that his retirement had nothing to do with growing criticism of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and my family have come to these meetings time and time again,” Harrison told councilmembers in June. “But, I don’t think that it’s really fair that some of these constituents that come here, and they get congratulated on this side; you’ll speak after that and say something. And I was just waiting for one of you guys to say, ‘Hey, I seen what happened and it was horrible.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo councilmembers have declined or not responded to interview requests. City Manager Greg Nyoff did not want to sit for an interview, but responded to a set of questions via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can only begin to imagine how difficult it is to lose a family member in this way,” Nyoff wrote. “Unfortunately, the communications between family members and the City thus far have primarily been during public comment at council meetings, which is not the best venue for productive interactions on an emotionally laden topic such as this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11768275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_9704-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Grant’s Uncle Bobby speaking at a picnic in Oakland honoring Willie McCoy on Aug. 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nyoff invited the families to attend community forums he said the city is planning with the help of the federal Department of Justice’s Community Relations Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day our police officers head out to serve this community with the goal of doing the right thing, doing right by the public and ensuring our residents and our police officers end their day safely,” Nyoff wrote in an email. “Fatal interactions are a tragedy for all involved — though most clearly for the deceased and their loved ones. Each case needs to be reviewed, evaluated and investigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie McCoy’s family is not alone in their fight at Vallejo City Hall for police reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The families of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Vallejo-cop-wanted-to-educate-a-bicyclist-13830311.php\">Ronnell Foster\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Vallejo-police-fatally-shoot-man-during-fight-at-10877000.php\">Angel Ramos\u003c/a>, a young Latino man shot by police in his mom’s backyard in 2017, have been showing up to City Hall, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\">the worst year for police shootings in Vallejo\u003c/a>, it was the families of victims like 23-year-old Mario Romero. Those families have been putting up this fight for police accountability in Vallejo before anyone recently started paying close attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want it to happen to another young African or another young Latino, Harrison said. “Not on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>This story was reported and produced by KQED’s local news podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a>. Click the “listen” button above to hear the episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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