SF News Day Around the Bay: SF District Attorney Says Homeless Should Be Made 'Uncomfortable' DA Brooke Jenkins said homeless people need to be "uncomfortable" in order to get them into shelter; the ex-cop in last weekend's standoff in the East Bay has been charged; and Hi Felicia owner Imana is closing Sluts wine bar and says she is unhoused.
SF News Gavin Newsom Joins Chorus of Lawmakers Calling for Fentanyl Dealers to Be Charged With Murder For Overdoses In announcing a new joint task force between the state and the City of San Francisco, Governor Newsom and Mayor Breed vow that they’ll start having fentanyl dealers charged with murder when a user dies from an accidental overdose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DA Jenkins Acknowledges 'Pro-Hamas March' Tweet, Doesn't Exactly Apologize A website falsely reported that Sup. Dean Preston had retired; there was an apparent murder-suicide this morning in Sunnyvale; and DA Brooke Jenkins acknowledged deleting a controversial tweet about Saturday's march supporting Palestinians.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Sued by One of Her Former Investigators, Who Claims She Lied in Dismissing Police Shooting Case Some old Chesa Boudin-era drama is rearing its head again, as DA Jenkins’s former assistant chief of investigations is hauling her to court, saying she lied when dropping the charges against a police officer who shot and killed someone.
SF News DA Jenkins’s Office Disqualified From Murder Case, and Boy Is She Upset at the Chronicle’s Coverage After the Chronicle broke a story that DA Brooke Jenkins’s office had been disqualified from a case involving her family member, Jenkins took to Twitter to excoriate the paper’s seemingly accurate reporting on the topic.
SF Politics Appeals Court Finds SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Committed Prosecutorial Misconduct A 2021 homicide case that was tried by then-Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, which she cited as a final straw in her disagreements with former boss Chesa Boudin, has come back to haunt Jenkins again.
SF News At Contentious Tenderloin Town Hall, DA Brooke Jenkins Blames Judges for Freeing Drug Dealers San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is looking to shift some blame for the city's ongoing fentanyl crisis to the county's judges, who she says are too lenient in allowing drug suspects back onto the streets.
SF News DA Jenkins Releases Castro Car-Flip Carjacking Suspects, Drops Charges Pending More Evidence Former DA Chesa Boudin probably would have been crucified for this, but DA Brooke Jenkins has dropped all charges and released the two suspects in last Saturday’s alleged carjacking gone wrong that resulted in the car flying off the Sanchez Street stairway hill.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two in Year-Old Fatal Lower Haight Shooting, DA Abruptly Releases One of Them A case that had appeared to have gone cold has heated up for San Francisco police, as they just arrested two suspects in a June 2022 Lower Haight shooting. But DA Brooke Jenkins has released one of the suspects, “pending further investigation."
SF News Humpday Headlines: DA Jenkins Touts Accomplishments of Her First Year Police activity caused a major backup on 101 in SF on Tuesday evening; District Attorney Brooke Jenkins reflects on her first year in office; and South Lake Tahoe is getting a Margaritaville resort.
SF News DA Jenkins Will Drop Charges Against SFPD Officer In 2017 Shooting of Mentally Ill Man SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has cleaned house in one regard, now having dismissed charges in all three police shooting cases brought by her predecessor Chesa Boudin.
SF Politics DA Jenkins’s Drug Treatment Effort Not Really Working, Because No One’s Showing Up For Court It’s hardly encouraging that DA Brooke Jenkins's ten-month-old push to get low-level drug arrestees into treatment has only yielded three attempts to get people into treatment. It’s even less encouraging that none of them have shown up for their court dates.
SF News Body Cam Footage Released of Fatal Police Shooting of SF Burglary Suspect District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is set to conduct an investigation into the “legality of the shooting," setting up another political fight over charging law enforcement in a fatal shooting.
SF News CA Attorney General Agrees to Look Into Banko Brown Shooting Case California State Attorney General Rob Bonta has agreed to review the evidence in the case of the shooting death of 24-year-old Banko Brown, and whether SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins made the right call in declining to press charges.
SF News Video of Banko Brown Shooting Released as DA Jenkins Announces Final Decision Not to File Charges Against Security Guard SF DA Brooke Jenkins announced Monday that her office has come to a final decision not to file charges against the Walgreens security guard accused of shooting alleged shoplifter Banko Brown, and with the decision the surveillance footage from the case has been made public.
SF Politics SF DA Drops Charges Against Officer In Jamaica Hampton Shooting, Says Grand Jury Was Shown Biased Evidence A 2020 indictment by a grand jury in the December 2019 officer-involved shooting of then-25-year-old Jamaica Hampton was the result of political motivation from former DA Chesa Boudin, and a grand jury that was shown incomplete evidence, says SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
SF Politics Possible Standoff Takes Shape Between DA and SF Supervisors Over Banko Brown Case Tensions are escalating between the SF District Attorney's Office and the Board of Supervisors as the supervisors prepare to vote to formally push for the release of surveillance video in the Banko Brown shooting case.
SF News DA Jenkins Issues Statement On Banko Brown Case, Says It Is Not Closed In an effort to quell the public outcry following her office's decision not to file charges the security guard responsible for the death of Banko Brown, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins issued a statement Monday making clear that charges still may be forthcoming.
SF News Peskin Calls On DA to 'Reconsider' Charging Walgreens Guard After Supporters of Slain Victim Protest at City Hall The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting on Tuesday turned raucous when family members and supporters of Banko Brown — the trans man killed last week by a Walgreens security guard — swarmed the chamber demanding justice for Brown.
SF News No Charges Being Filed In SF Walgreens Shooting, Guard Claiming Self-Defense The suspect in last week's fatal shooting at the Walgreens near Union Square, who is a security guard employed by the store, has been released from custody without charges.
SF News SF District Attorney Slams 'Reckless and Irresponsible' Tweets By Musk and Others Following Murder Arrest SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said some pointed things Thursday aimed squarely at Elon Musk and others who took to bashing San Francisco immediately in the wake of a tech executive's stabbing death last week.
SF News Brooke Jenkins’s Tenure at Eight Months: More Arrests and Convictions, Yet Still More Murders and OD Deaths Crime and conviction rates under District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’s first eight months are being seen as a glass half-full for both her supporters and critics, as more people are being arrested and convicted, though more people are being murdered and dying of drug overdoses.
SF Politics SF District Attorney Reverses Herself On Changes to Sanctuary City Policy Sensing the political winds might not always be in her favor, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has done a — for her thus far — rare about-face on a policy decision, regarding SF's sanctuary city status.
SF Politics AG Bonta's Office Has 90 Days to Review SF Police Shooting Case — and Jenkins's Handling of It The California Attorney General's Office has responded to a San Francisco court proceeding involving what would have been the first-ever prosecution of an on-duty SFPD officer for a fatal shooting, asking for 90 more days to review the case.
SF Politics Mayor Breed’s Brother Can Have His Sentence Lightened For 2000 Killing Case, Judge Rules Another new legal ruling Monday in the case of Mayor Breed’s brother could potentially see him released from prison, where he’s been for 20 years, as he’s now eligible for a resentencing that will likely lower his sentence.
