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Supervisors Vote To Install Permanent Alex Nieto Memorial On Bernal Hill

A photo posted by @tootsieroll415 on Jun 16, 2016 at 5:30pm PDT The arrangement of rocks, flowers, and photographs that has sat beside Bernal Hill for the past two years in memory

Arts & Entertainment

Video: 'On The Hill,' A New Theater Piece About The Shooting Of Alex Nieto

"How do you fight back? How do you reclaim your identity?” says playwright Paul S. Flores. “That’s what these kids are doing in this play." Flores just premiered a new theater piece

Officer Cleared In Alex Nieto Shooting Gloats On Facebook (Allegedly)

Roger Morse, one of four officers cleared last week when a federal jury found the SFPD quartet did not use excessive force when they shot and killed Alex Nieto in 2014, allegedly reacted

SFPD Officers Who Killed Alex Nieto Did Not Use Excessive Force, Jury Finds

According to an eight person federal jury who deliberated for roughly a day following eight days of testimony, four San Francisco police officers did not use excessive force when they killed Alex Nieto,

Closing Arguments Heard In Nieto Trial, Jury Deliberates

“What brings us here today are 59 shots," Mission Local quotes the closing arguments attorney Adante Pointer made yesterday in the case against police officers who killed Alex Nieto in Bernal Heights Park

Key Witness For City Says Alex Nieto Pointed Taser At Him And His Dog

The tragic sequence of events that led to the death of Alex Nieto on March 21, 2014 got a new and weird detail added to it with the conclusion of witness testimony on

Key Witness And Medical Examiner Cross-Examined In Nieto Trial

In testimony Friday in the wrongful death case against the city and the SFPD regarding the 2014 shooting death of Alejandro "Alex" Nieto, key prosecution witness Antonio Theodore was cross-examined by Deputy City

Witness Testifies That Nieto Had Hands In Pockets When Police Opened Fire

Not good day for police. Witness says Alex Nieto had hands in jacket pockets when police fired. Story at 6. #ABC7Now pic.twitter.com/Edyt4YGBiM— Dan Noyes (@dannoyes) March 4, 2016 As was

Rookie Cop Fired 23 Shots At Alex Nieto, Thought Niners Jacket Was Gang-Related

Rookie SFPD officer thought Alex Nieto may have been gang member because of red Niners jacket. #ABC7Now pic.twitter.com/StO0pHRxpi— Dan Noyes (@dannoyes) March 2, 2016 In the first witness testimony in

Officers Fired On Alex Nieto As Many As 59 Times; Nieto Allegedly Fired Taser At Them Three Times

As the civil trial begins in a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of San Francisco following the 2014 death of Alejandro "Alex" Nieto at the hands of SF police, some fresh details

Civil Rights Trial Against City In Alex Nieto Shooting Begins Today

A federal trial in the civil rights lawsuit against the City of San Francisco regarding the March 2014 shooting death of 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto is set to begin today, as the Examiner reports,

New Evidence Emerges In SFPD Shootings As Complaints Office Seeks More Authority

A proposal authored by Supervisor Malia Cohen to give the Office of Citizen Complaints complete authority to investigate all police shootings is moving forward, the Examiner reports, with the Board's Rules Committee sending

Early Morning Protests Wake Up Mayor Lee And Chief Suhr

#96Hours to Reclaim King's #Radical #Legacy #APTP #Last3Pecent #ReclaimSF #BlackBrownUnity Good Morning, #GregSuhr! pic.twitter.com/B95YfuCqGP— Smedley Butler (@Smedley_Butler) January 17, 2016 A pair of dramatic protest events occurred in the

Witness In Alex Nieto Civil Rights Trial To Say He Had Hands In His Pockets When Police Shot Him

Nearly two years since the police shooting of Alex Nieto, a federal civil rights trial is set to begin in the case on March 1 in which at least one eyewitness will directly

Protesters Chain Themselves To Mission Police Station To Mark Anniversary Of Nieto Shooting

Protest to mark the one-year anniversary of the police shooting of Alex Nieto still going strong on Valencia St. pic.twitter.com/SRXz7RmGoW— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) March 23, 2015 Protesting officer-involved shootings

SFPD Complies With Judge's Order, Releases Names Of Officers Who Killed Bernal Heights Man

The Friday news release is long-known as "a transparent attempt to evade fallout by burying bad news ahead of the weekend," as Slate put it over a decade ago. Perhaps that's why, after

Judge Rules That Names Of Officers Who Shot Alex Nieto Must Be Revealed

Though the SFPD and the City Attorney have been stalling for time in the case of the officer-involved death of Alex Nieto this past March, a federal judge has just ruled that the