SF News Lawsuit Filed Against Hercules Cops Who Tased a Man Who Suffered Epileptic Seizure A civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the Hercules Police Department and three officers over an April 2024 incident in which the officers forcibly restrained and tased a 21-year-old man who had just suffered his first-ever grand mal seizure.
SF News Woman Vows to Sue SFPD For Violent Jaywalking Arrest That Left Her With a Concussion, Separated Shoulder A mother of five was roughed up in a recent jaywalking arrest, and now there’s video of the incident, so she says she's going to sue SFPD for leaving her with a concussion and a separated shoulder.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Fatal Shooting of Dacari Spiers, Victim In Notorious 2019 SFPD Brutality Case One man has been arrested for killing the central figure in a high-profile 2019 police brutality case that dominated SF headlines during the Chesa Boudin days, as SFPD has arrested a 43-year-old man for the June fatal shooting of Dacari Spiers.
SF News Man Killed In Saturday's Mission Shooting Was Victim In Infamous 2019 SFPD Brutality Case, Dacari Spiers A tragic footnote to a high-profile police brutality case whose trial dominated SF headlines during the Chesa Boudin days, as we learn that the victim of a fatal Saturday shooting turns out to be the man who made news for being on the wrong end of an SFPD beatdown in 2019.
SF News Alameda County DA Charges Three Officers Over 2021 In-Custody Death Where Previous DA Had Declined to Charge A looming recall election has not deterred Alameda County DA Pamela Price from charging three police officers with involuntary manslaughter in a 2021 case where a suspect died from what was ruled to be “restraint asphyxiation” by the officers.
SF News Feds Detail Charges Against Antioch, Pittsburg Cops: Dealing Steroids, Siccing K9 on Suspects, Faking College Credits We now know that ten Antioch and Pittsburg police officers were arrested in Thursday’s FBI raids, and on top of the racist text messages, we have allegations of steroid dealing, intentional dog attacks, and faking college credits.
SF News Video: Antioch Police Now Have Excessive Force, Racial Profiling Scandal On their Hands Video of a Latino man who was not even suspected of a crime, yet received a thorough beatdown from Antioch police officers, is the latest dirty linen for a department already reeling from a racist text scandal and a federal investigation into their possible cocaine distribution.
SF News All Eyes Are on AG Rob Bonta as Decision to Prosecute Rookie SF Cop In 2017 Keita O'Neil Shooting Rests With Him A San Francisco judge on Wednesday opted to delay a motion from the District Attorney's Office to dismiss manslaughter charges against former SFPD Officer Christopher Samayoa, in order to give the state Attorney General's Office more time to consider the case.
SF News San Mateo County Agrees to $4.5 Million Settlement With Family of Man Police Fatally Tasered In 2019 County officials are calling it “the largest law enforcement-related settlement in anyone’s memory” after agreeing to pay a $4.5 million settlement for the tasering and killing of an unarmed pedestrian who’d merely been jaywalking.
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 News Another Scandal for San Rafael Police, This Time for Beating and Bloodying Someone Over an Open Container The San Rafael Police Department was already under scrutiny over depositing a mentally ill homeless man in SF, but now two other officers are on leave for an incredibly violent, brutal response to a day laborer who had an open container of beer.
SF Politics Judge In SFPD Use-of-Force Trial Balks at Prosecution's Request for New Court Date, Sends Clear Message to DA The judge in the trial of SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, a trial which ended Monday in a near complete acquittal, sounded less than patient with the District Attorney's Office on Tuesday when a request was made for a new court date.
SF News Jury Enters Deliberations In SFPD Brutality Trial; Prosecution Argues Officers Didn't See Victim 'As Human' Deliberations began Tuesday in the historic trial of SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, who is charged with excessive use of force in a 2019 beating of a domestic violence suspect who was subsequently not charged with any crime.
SF News Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted of All Charges, and Wisconsin May See Some Unrest Tonight Militia kid Kyle Rittenhouse is a free man, as a jury acquitted him of all charges after deliberating for three and a half days.
SF News Former Alameda Deputies Sentenced in Ghoulish Inmate Abuse Scandal A pair of Alameda County deputy guards who orchestrated cruel feces-throwing behavior at Santa Rita jail will find themselves on the other side of the bars, getting sentenced to four years in state prison.
SF News DA Boudin Files New Charges In Six-Year-Old Alley-Beating Case Involving Alameda County Cops Almost six years on from a brutal case of police brutality that was caught on surveillance video and witnessed by multiple people, the two former Alameda County sheriff's deputies are once again facing charges in San Francisco.
SF News Home Security Footage Shows Vacaville Police Officer Throw, Strike Autistic Teenager Last Wednesday, April 21, a Ring doorbell system filmed a police officer in Vacaville throwing a 17-year-old boy with autism to the ground; the officer during the incident also allegedly punched him in the head.
SF News Public Defender Launches CopWatch, A Searchable Police Misconduct Database An online tool with the extremely cool name CopWatch lets you search on public records of officer complaints, but not much has been uploaded yet.
SF Politics ‘Bad Officers’ Bill Fails in Legislature, Police Won’t Be Stripped of Badges for Misconduct California remains one of five states that won’t strip badges from officers who commit crimes or misconduct, after an attempt to reform that failed to make the Assembly floor.
SF News SF To Pay Nearly Half a Million Dollars to Settle Alleged Police Misconduct Cases It will surely interest the “Defund the Police” movement that San Francisco is paying out a combined $455,000 in settlements to a man SFPD shot in the back, and another they injured during the 2017 skateboard “hill bomb.”
SF News Federal Civil Rights Complaint Claims Sonoma Deputy Used 'Excessive and Deadly Force' on Black Man Last Summer This past July, 34-year-old La'Marcus McDonald was between houses and, after indulging in some tequila, chose to sleep inside his friend's car one night with the door ajar. He was later that evening allegedly subjected to "excessive and deadly force" by an officer conducting a welfare check.
SF News Angela Davis, Skateboarders, and More Scenes From Juneteenth Weekend Protests in the Bay Area Bay Area protests denouncing racism and police brutality show no sign of easing up anytime soon. This weekend saw at least two skateboarding protests in support of BLM, another paddle out at Ocean Beach to honor George Floyd, and additional rallies celebrating Friday’s Juneteenth holiday.
Bay Area Sports Now the NFL Is Practically Begging Teams to Sign Colin Kaepernick The bandwagon has done a sudden 180 on national anthem kneeling protests, and the head of the NFL says he would “encourage” a team to bring Kaep back.
SF News Scenes of Solidarity: Photos and Videos From Sunday's Demonstrations Across the Bay Area Another day of Bay Area-wide demonstrations saw thousands of young children circling Lake Merritt bobbing "Black Lives Matter" signage, a second kids march near City College in SF that instilled hope for a more empathic future, and a Santa Cruz "paddle out" in honor of George Floyd’s life.
SF News More Curfews Spread Across East Bay After Another Police Shooting in Hayward Hayward, San Leandro, and Union City have all joined in on instituting curfews as the ongoing unrest spawns another police shooting of a suspect and the ransacking of the Bayfair Center.
