• Pam Moore, who anchored at KRON4 for more than 30 years, was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame on Friday. During the ceremony, she announced $50,000 in new college scholarships for students in Detroit and the Bay Area. [KRON4]
• Lawyers in San Francisco are using habeas corpus petitions to quickly free asylum-seekers detained at immigration court. One 20-year-old Colombian man was released three days after his arrest. [Mission Local]
• Oakland police arrested a man they suspect shot at officers on the 1000 block of West Grand Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Friday morning after they were called to a domestic dispute incident involving one adult and two children. [KPIX]
• Eli's Mile High Club is raising funds to keep the bar open during their ongoing zoning dispute with the city of Oakland. [GoFundMe]

National:

• Walmart has settled a lawsuit filed by district attorneys in Santa Clara, San Diego, Sonoma and San Bernardino counties alleging they violated the California’s False Advertising and Unfair Competition Laws. The company paid $5.6 million in a suit that claimed the company charged customers for baked goods and produce that weighed less than labeled. [Bay Area News Group]
• Voters in Lincoln, Nebraska grilled Republican Rep. Mike Flood at a packed town hall this week, including one woman whose smackdown quickly went viral. Flood later dismissed the crowd as “unrepresentative” and defended the Medicaid cuts as necessary. [NPR]

• The recent wave of dildo-throwing incidents at WNBA games may be linked to a stunt by promoters of a new memecoin, whose value has spiked since the incidents began. [New York Times]

Video of the Day:

• A trio of young musicians from Marin — 18-year-old Gus Mehrkam and brothers Kai and Manoa Neukermans, 21 and 17 — take the stage at Outside Lands Friday night as shoegaze band, Midrift, before they embark on their tour across the US and the UK. Check out one of their videos featuring what appear to be some scenic North Bay views. [SFGate]

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• Three asylum-seekers were arrested by ICE at San Francisco immigration court Friday, moments after hearings in which DHS attorneys moved to dismiss their asylum petitions. In at least two cases, judges declined the motion and gave the individuals time to respond in writing, which should have protected them from removal, but ICE agents arrested them anyway in the hallway. [Mission Local]
• A Sonoma County public defender was hospitalized after being beaten and robbed outside the courthouse Thursday by a former client, 44-year-old Leon Simms, who also allegedly made violent threats before fleeing. Simms was arrested Friday after a traffic stop, and police say a search of his home recovered the stolen property; he faces charges including robbery, attempted kidnapping, and battery causing serious injury. [KRON4]
• SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto refused the DOJ's request to hand over a list of noncitizen inmates, citing the city’s sanctuary laws and saying his office “will not foster fear in immigrant communities.” [NBC Bay Area]
• San Francisco Immigration Judge Ila Deiss and Concord Immigration Judge Kyra Lilien were among the 18 judges fired by the Trump administration over the past week. [NBC Bay Area]
• In response to ICE raids, LA therapists have formed discreet “whisper networks” — password-protected referral systems helping immigrant clients access mental health care while minimizing risk. [LA Public Press]

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After allegedly being beaten, sexually assaulted, threatened by a Guatemalan congressman, and chronically harassed by Guatemalan police, gay Bay Area resident Saul Martinez fled to the United States in 1992. Now, after years of living in the U.S., the Feds are trying to send him back to his country of origin. According to the National Center for Lesbian Rights:

In 1992, when Martinez initially applied for asylum, the U.S. had not yet recognized sexual orientation as a ground for asylum. Afraid of being forced back to Guatemala, where he feared for his life, and unaware that persecution based on sexual orientation might be a basis for asylum in this country, Martinez did not disclose his sexual orientation in his initial asylum application, stating that he feared returning to Guatemala because of his political opinion.

Unfortunately, since Martinez failed to claim sexual orientation as his reason for escape, and with a jarring disregard to Guatemala's treatment of LGBT ilk, the Ninth Circuit says he's not credible and denied his claim to stay in the U.S. Even though "Martinez’s life partner testified in court about their relationship," there's a very good chance he will be sent back to a place where he must live in fear. Again. (At the very least, aome of this mess, perhaps, might not be problem if same-sex marriage was still legal in California.)