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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.

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.

SFPD Says It Wants To Do Better Responding To Racially Biased, 'BBQ Becky'-Style Calls

The SFPD brass, along with community members and policy makers, convened a meeting on Tuesday to come up with a policy statement concerning non-emergency police calls that could result in "bias by proxy."

Bodycam Footage Analysis Shows Cops Are Nicer To White People

Bodycam footage from police officers is typically used only to determine innocence or guilt in high-profile use-of-force incidents. But a new Stanford study puts big-data analysis to bodycam footage, analyzing 981 routine Oakland

$5.5 Million Settlement For Guy Beaten Senseless by Alameda County Deputies

The long, strange, ‘everybody looks bad here’ saga of a November 2015 incident wherein the driver of a stolen Mercedes received an absolutely thorough thrashing by Alameda County sheriff’s deputies appears to

Anger Grows In Vallejo After Police Are Caught On Video Beating Unarmed Suspect

A Vallejo police officer is being called to task over the beating of a suspect Friday afternoon that happened in view of multiple witnesses outside a gas station in the city's Country Club

From Rodney King To Oscar Grant To Mario Woods, Oakland Attorney John Burris On Taking Cases That Change Police Departments

John Burris isn't a political activist. "Making speeches? Nobody can win that," he says ruefully over tea in his Oakland law offices. "You can say what you want, I can say what I

BART Settles Case For $1.35M Involving Former Model Whose Face Got Slammed To Ground By Cops

A very drunken St. Patrick's Day in 2014 turned into a incident of excessive force at the hands of BART police according to a lawsuit that was just settled by BART earlier this

Body Camera Shows Man Dying In Hayward And BART Police Custody

The story of the death of James Greer while in police custody in 2014 is a sad and frustrating one, and now his family is seeking some kind of solace in pushing for

Video: SFPD Officer Caught On Camera Hitting Suspect Says He Needs To Seize Camera

A plainclothes SFPD officer seen in the video above apparently punching a suspect as he's being arrested can then be heard saying he has to "seize" the camera that was recording the incident

Black Cyclist Says He Was Stopped And Beaten By SFPD While Delivering A Burrito

A bicycle delivery worker was fulfilling a Postmates order for a burrito in SoMa when he tells CBS SF he was stopped by SFPD officers who went on to brutally beat and mace

Sheriff's Deputies Who Brutally Beat Man In The Mission Named

The Alameda County Sheriff's deputies who were caught on video brutally beating a 29-year-old man in the Mission last month have been named. The Contra Costa Times reports that on Thursday Luis Santamaria

Campos On Mario Woods Shooting: 'We Need Fundamental Change Around De-Escalation'

Both Martin Halloran, the president of the S.F. Police Officers Association, and Supervisor David Campos went on Phil Matier's Sunday morning program on CBS 5, Matier in the Morning, to have an

Police Commission Meeting About Mario Woods Shooting Erupts In Chaos

Healthy showing of protesters outside #SF city hall calling for consequences to killing of #mariowoods pic.twitter.com/SF4yINHJqs— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) December 10, 2015 A meeting of the police commission Wednesday

SFPD Still Trying To Justify Killing Knife-Wielding Mario Woods As Community Outrage Grows

Gwendolyn Woods said SFPD executed her son, the youngest of three boys. Here's a picture of mom and #MarioWoods pic.twitter.com/vyniRQsgGn— Michael Barba (@mdbarba) December 4, 2015 Tensions are rising and

Man Beaten In Mission By Alameda Deputies May Suffer Permanent Damage To His Arms And Hands

Man beaten in SF by Alameda Co. sheriff's deputies had surgery for extensive injuries https://t.co/ugeSMkObb9 pic.twitter.com/CFrg5zim09— KQED News (@KQEDnews) November 19, 2015 The man seen receiving a

Video Of Stockton Police Roughing Up Jaywalking Teen Incites Outrage On Social Media

Yet another example, caught on video, of police overreach and arguable brutality has been making the rounds on social media, this time out of Stockton, California. The two-and-a-half-minute video shows a 16-year-old black

Janelle Monáe And Wondaland Crew Draw Hundreds To Black Lives Matter Protest In Mission

@JanelleMonae & Wanderland crew blessed SF with song, protest and march today #hellutalkingabout #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/R0nJycQTh1— Portia Elder (@PortiaElder) August 24, 2015 About 300 people showed up for the rally and

Arts & Entertainment

Janelle Monáe To Perform At Rally Against Police Violence In The Mission

R&B star Janelle Monáe will be performing Sunday afternoon in the Mission at a concert and rally against police violence. Monáe will be joined by Jidenna and fellow Wondaland Records artists

Video Of One-Legged Man Restrained By Police On Mid-Market Prompts Review

The cellphone video above that we showed you on Monday via reporter Chaédria LaBouvier has now prompted a wave of media coverage and an incident review by the SFPD and SFFD. Both departments

Video: Homeless Amputee Taken Down By 14 Cops At Seventh And Market

An incident occurred on mid-Market two weeks ago in which a one-legged man with crutches was reported, possibly by a nearby business owner, for waving some "sticks" around in the vicinity. Though we

24-Year-Old Man Suing SFPD Over Excessive Force During Post-Dyke March Protest

There were various reports about some chaos, and police intervention, outside the old Lexington Club on Pink Saturday, after an offshoot of the planned Dyke March went rogue and decided to follow the

City Settles For $20K With Cyclist Beaten By Police At Valencia Gardens

Though it seems like a fairly paltry sum of money, the City Attorney's office has settled with a man who lives at the Valencia Gardens housing complex who claims he was brutalized and

Man Accused Of Knocking Cop Unconscious During Struggle For Shotgun Has Troubled Past With SFPD

A homeless man who said he was beaten by police after a July, 2014 altercation in the Panhandle is back in custody today, this time for allegedly knocking a cop unconscious as he

Mayor Lee Proposes $3 Million Plan For Police Body Cameras

Back in 2013, we were told that SFPD officers would be getting body cameras as part of a pilot program funded by $25,000 federal grant. But in January of this year, we