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.
SF Politics SF DA Brooke Jenkins Has Cut Staff Level of Unit That Investigates Police By More Than Half In further evidence that DA Jenkins may not be as aggressive in her pursuit of police accountability as her predecessors, the Chronicle has found that Jenkins has less than half the number of attorneys and fewer investigators working in the unit responsible for investigating police abuses.
SF Politics DA Jenkins and Supervisor Dorsey Both Seek Carve-Outs To SF Sanctuary City Policies San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy may become a hot potato again, this time in local politics, as DA Jenkins seeks an exception for two suspects abroad, and Sup. Dorsey wants an exception for fentanyl dealers.
SF News DA Will Indeed Drop Prosecution of Keita O’Neil Police Shooting Case, Says State Can Take It If They Want DA Brooke Jenkins has decided she’s dropping the charges against a former SFPD officer who shot and killed unarmed Keita O’Neil in 2017, but says AG Rob Bonta is free to prosecute it if he wants to.
SF News DA Brooke Jenkins Issues Arrest Warrant for SF Gallery Owner Seen Hosing Homeless Woman District Attorney Brooke Jenkins may be sensing an opportunity to prove she can be tough not just on drug dealers and car burglars, but also on those who attack the city's unhoused in
SF News DA Jenkins’s Office Can Prosecute Resentencing the Murder Case Against Mayor Breed’s Brother, Court Rules A San Francisco Superior Court judge denied a motion Monday morning that asked to take the murder resentencing of Mayor Breed’s brother out of the hands of DA Brooke Jenkins’s office, a motion that was made by Breed’s brother’s attorneys.
SF News San Francisco Couple Accused of Trafficking Nanny From Philippines and Enforcing Slave Labor With Little Pay The San Francisco District Attorney's Office on Tuesday announced charges against married SF residents Jose Aguila and Lorraine Lim following a year-long investigation into the alleged labor trafficking of a childcare worker.
SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Seen Beating Suspect In Mission District Alley Has Charges Against Him Dismissed A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy, one of two officers seen on video in San Francisco brutally beating a suspect with their batons in a widely publicized 2015 incident, saw the charges against him dismissed Thursday morning.
SF Politics Mayoral Appointees Brooke Jenkins and Matt Dorsey Hold Leads as Ranked-Choice Results Are Tabulated Two closely watched city races, the District 6 supervisor race and the district attorney's race, do not yet have final results — but both Brooke Jenkins and Matt Dorsey appear to hold solid leads.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Hit With More Ethics Allegations Over Alleged Unauthorized Sharing of Sensitive Department Documents A new report alleges DA Jenkins shared a suspect’s information for use in the recall campaign with another colleague who was also quitting on Boudin, and Jenkins is responding by launching an investigation into the leak.
