The San Francisco district attorney’s office charged a former San Francisco police lieutenant with obstructing a rape investigation on Wednesday. Hours later Curtis Liu was arrested on a felony charge of making a false statement in a police report and two misdemeanor charges of obstructing or delaying a police officer. …
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Just when we thought the San Francisco Police Department might have learned something about sending racist and homophobic texts, SFPD is once again taking heavy fire after it was revealed more texts existed, and more officers were involved. Reports say a criminal investigation has unveiled a series of racist texts …
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Mario Woods, the Bay Area man whose fatal shooting by the police was recorded in a series of disturbing videos, was found to have been shot at least twenty times by the San Francisco police, autopsy results showed Thursday. The report showed that Woods died from gunshots to his back, head, …
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Finally, two months after five officers shot and killed 26-year-old black man Mario Woods, the US Department of Justice will launch an investigation into his death. The killing has prompted widespread criticism of the SFPD after cell phone videos surfaced calling into question whether the officers’ use of force was justified. …
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New disturbing details have emerged in the case of California plaintiff Heather Marlowe, who was drugged and raped in 2010. Despite her repeated requests over the course of years, the SFPD failed to test her rape kit — and now they’re being sued as well as the city of San …
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In a weekend-long series of actions aimed at reclaiming/restoring Martin Luther King Jr’s history of radicalism and revolutionary action, Black Lives Matter activists chain linked cars together and blocked traffic at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Via The Guardian: “Today is the day when we reclaim MLK’s radical legacy,” …
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Video footage shows protestors chaining their cars to the Bay Bridge to block westbound traffic into San Francisco. They have a banner reading “Black Health Matters” and have built a shrine to the victims of police shootings. Another protest group currently blocks an I-80 onramp. KTVU reports: “Police have begun …
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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr woke up to a rousing chorus of demonstrators Monday morning, joining the growing chorus urging their respective resignations. Via SF Examiner Protesters lined the block where Suhr lives with a small row of effigies of dead bodies and invited the …
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After being drugged and waking up at a stranger’s house likely to have been raped the night before, a San Francisco woman went through four hours of a sexual assault examination at a hospital in May 2010. Cops told her the rape kit would be tested very soon but continued …
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Protesting the death of Mario Woods, 9 Black Lives Matter activsts were arrested yesterday in San Francisco. See the protests through their own eyes: Protests on the 405 South have the freeway stopped for miles #405south pic.twitter.com/j8hJ9ISrJf — Tory Barneson Benoit (@ToryWithaWhy) December 23, 2015 We shutdown the highway for …
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