Nate Gartrell
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Reporter for the East Bay Times covering state and federal courts in Northern California. Bearer of bad news with no hobbies or outside interests.
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I wrote this because Pete Longmire’s part of a group that gets new members every day. It took him years of struggling to find inner peace, but he eventually did. From the outside there was no inkling that he was going thru such an immense personal tragedy:
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border cops bust black market bologna:
More than 150 pounds of black market bologna seized in Texas, border agents say
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The FBI has said repeatedly that the killers used the Oakland protests/riots as cover to assassinate a federal officer, knowing that law enforcement was distracted that night. They weren't part of the protests.
Pence’s narrative about Underwood’s killing was, at best, deceptive.
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#NEW
: For years, Antioch cops routinely flouted racist views in text groups with other officers, and received laughter, indifference, and praise in response. Now these communications have come to light:
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I can’t believe a sitting DA would lie this blatantly and publicly about a document anybody can pull, but here we are…
This decision has nothing to do at all with my "comments." However, the headline grossly suggests otherwise.
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#NEW
: East Contra Costa cops allegedly schemed to fraudulently obtain college degrees for incentive pay raises, prompting the investigation that has spanned 2022. But when the FBI seized officers’ phones they found evidence of far more serious crimes:
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#NEW
: A Vallejo cop allegedly threatened to kill his ex, assuring her he could bury her body where it wouldn’t be found. After she reported it to VPD they said they’d “look into it.” She later got an anonymous threat referencing her report:
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@MLBONFOX
@TheAthletic
That’s wayyy too long! Let’s end games at the 5th inning and start every batter with 2 strikes. We need to shoot for under 60 minutes or the non baseball fans’ tiny brains will overload
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#NEW
: In a dramatic court room unveiling, a judge read off a list of 17 names, all Antioch officers involved in the racist texting scandal. They include POA President Rick Hoffman:
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#NEW
: A federal grand jury has begun subpoenaing witnesses to investigate alleged crimes by East Contra Costa police officers, including a K9 officer whose dog bit at least 22 people over three years:
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Leaders of the Boogaloo-affiliated Grizzly Scouts militia talked about impersonating Antifa and sparking violence at protests, taking cops as 'POWs,' and waiting for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act as a 'signal' to take up arms:
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#NEW
: We have a tip of the name of the Vallejo officer who killed Sean Monterrosa Tuesday morning. It is an officer who has multiple prior incidents where he's fired his gun while on duty. Working to confirm so I can share it
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Wow. Touching story by Mike Lefkow, about brother of Orinda shooting victim Omar Taylor, apparently hired to DJ the party:
Clayton Valley RB plays against De La Salle hours after brother is killed in Orinda shooting.
@DarrenSabedra
@JensenPhil
@VytasMazeika
@coachnatesmith
@JonBecker28
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#NEW
: Antioch and Pittsburg cops arrested in early morning FBI raids. Indictment has been filed:
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It's interesting to see all these DA/AG races get framed to be about crime when they're really about what happens to people who get charged with committing crimes -- big difference.
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Apparently I wrote “San Pablo Damn Road” in a story and it made it to print
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New federal court filings accuse Vallejo Ofc. David McLaughlin of being part of the 'vigilante police gang' that bent tips of their badges to mark kills on the job:
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Another Alameda County prosecutor is resigning and blaming new policies under Pamela Price. In the letter Jill Nerone quoted a homicide victim’s family and urged Price to “soften” her policies to make crime victims “once again” a priority for the office:
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What does it mean to be under investigation by the FBI for alleged crimes that carry decades in prison? If you’re an Antioch cop it means a publicly funded paid vacation with benefits for 18+ months:
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We got footage of the craziest police chase I've ever covered in my career. This is almost straight outta GTA. He collided head-on with a cop car, jumped off a 20-foot ledge, ran across the freeway, got hit by a car, carjacked a motorist...
@DylanBouscher
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About a year and change ago my good buddy David Debolt came back to the newspaper to be my boss, and here’s the result. I’m not an easy person to manage but when the right person comes along it makes a big difference.
Our EIJ awardees are now out 🥳 Leading the pack as Journalist of the Year is....
@NateGartrell
!
We are thrilled to celebrate him & other top-notch journalists on Dec. 7 at the first in-person EIJ ceremony since the pandemic. Early bird tickets end Fri
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Wow, they really pulled out all the stops with this super detailed summary of a police shooting:
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Probably won't be writing too many stories in next couple weeks. It's her fault.
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Officers talked about committing civil rights violations, falsifying police reports, said they were happy the city hadn’t forced them to wear body cameras so they could beat people, and talked about how they can use the N word in front of supervisors without repercussions
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If you want crime to go down, flood schools with money and turn them from the hella depressing facilities they mostly are into modern day palaces. Deify teachers like doctors. And wait like 10-15 years for the kids who benefit from this to grow up. In the meantime it's gonna suck
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#NEW
: Before he was charged with 5 felonies, a Contra Costa deputy allegedly kept a thumb drive in his patrol car containing judges' e-signatures. Something like this would essentially give any corrupt cop a carte blanche to serve fake search warrants:
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#BREAKING
: A Napa man caught with dozens of guns and pipe bombs was plotting attacks in California and had ties to a far-right militia, according to the FBI. The complaint alleges he discussed wanting to use violence to keep Trump in office:
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#NEW
batch of Antioch cops’ texts shows officers factoring in race during the course of their jobs. Including: a man arrested for “flexing his Blackness,” racist remarks about their own police chief, and a lot more.
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#BREAKING
: The Vallejo officer who shot and killed Sean Monterrosa has been identified as an officer who has had three prior shooters since 2015:
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#NEW
: Federal and state authorities served a warrant in Clayton, acting on a tip that a man was building ghost guns from parts he obtained from Contra Costa Sheriff's staff. They seized 132 guns, a sheriff badge, and evidence bags full of ammo:
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The Vallejo Times-Herald fired their only full time city reporter today because he refused to take down tweets about something that was in A PUBLIC AGENDA. A mind-bogglingly inept decision and betrayal to the newspaper's readers.
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#BREAKING
: Contra Costa DA will announce charges against Sheriff's Dep. Andrew Hall in the 2018 on-duty killing of Laudemer Arboleda:
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@MLB
Watching baseball is my greatest passion, especially now that I get to spend less time doing it
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When we first exposed racist /homophobic texts by Antioch cops, I thought the DAs reports were a rehashing of everything they had. Turns out it was just the tip of the iceberg. There were hundreds if not 1000s that didn’t make the cut. More tmrw AM
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This week Jonathan Watson sent me a four-page letter confessing to killing two child molesters in prison. He also said that he warned the prison that violence was coming, and was able to beat two people to death with a cane without guards noticing:
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Per
@glid24
, Vallejo is going to remove a planning commissioner who was recently observed drunkenly throwing his pet cat into the air, while screaming that city staff are "bitches." All of this happened AT A PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING.
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Here’s a thought: now that society seems on the verge of reopening let’s keep those court audio/video livestreams intact. Court hearings are supposed to be public, let’s allow the public to continue to listen in so ppl can make informed decisions about their justice system.
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#NEW
: Attorney General Rob Bonta announces a major civil rights investigation into the Antioch police department, saying he's very concerned by "breach of trust," including racism and "disparate" use of force:
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Pretty obvious what’s going on here. Just spiteful retaliation by a sitting DA who doesn’t like the
@BerkeleyScanner
’s reporting
I was just turned away from an announced press conference with elected
@AlamedaCountyDA
Pamela Price. Every other member of the media who came was let in without any checking of credentials.
@FACoalition
@rcfp
@SPJ_NorCal
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Finally got referenced in a song by a rapper from Co Co County, another career milestone met
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#NEW
: Pamela Price intends to file a misdemeanor charge Butch Ford, a former Alameda prosecutor who works for the SF DA, for allegedly interfering with the manslaughter prosecution of a San Leandro officer:
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#Exclusive
: Richmond police chief is on leave after family member requested DV restraining order. OPD arrests family members’ alleged pimp the same day, then launches internal affairs probe involving Vallejo and Oakland chiefs convos about it. What a mess:
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#NEW
: A high-ranking Contra Costa DA confirmed in court today that the FBI found text messages by Antioch detectives containing "unambiguous racial animus" towards Black men, including specific references to men the detectives were investigating:
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A former Oakland cop and DA inspector admitted to taking bribes, helping cover for a double-murder, and other corruption. He also implicated a former colleague who still works for Alameda County:
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#NEW
: A man who volunteered for Pamela Price’s DA campaign after being acquitted of murder is now charged with shooting a man outside an Oakland bar. The complaint was filed by an outgoing DDA who recently blasted Price in her resignation letter:
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#NEW
: Mark Demetrious Sanders, 27, has been ID'd as the suspect in the killing of Oakland police officer Tuan Le. Booked earlier today on charges of first degree murder, assault with a firearm on a vehicle, and burglary/conspiracy:
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The A's and Giants are uniting over their mutual hatred of the A's
#BayAreaUnite
The countdown is on!
We’re teaming up with the
@SFGiants
as we celebrate the road to
#OpeningDay
together 🤝
Meet A’s legend Vida Blue, hang out with Stomper, grab some swag, and enjoy ballpark snacks with us on Wednesday at Embarcadero Plaza.
#BayAreaUnite
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Here is where we delve what exactly is alleged in these indictments. There are some pretty grisly and shocking descriptions of violence:
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The CJR wanted to do something on an overworked courts reporter. So...
New:
@jaeahjlee
profiles
@NateGartrell
, a courts reporter in Northern California, as he investigates police misconduct, holds his local officials accountable, and tries to avoid a lay off.
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#NEW
: The man who allegedly shot his wife and barricaded himself in a Pleasant Hill home has been ID'd as a former Pittsburg police detective who continues to Tweet from inside. Police ended the standoff hours ago without making an arrest:
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@NYDailyNews
it's going to be really hard to sink any lower after this but I'm sure you will find a way
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NEW: Prosecutor resigns in Alameda County effective March 17, says “I no longer feel capable of fulfilling my legal and ethical duties” under current admin. I’m told communications director quit yesterday (two seem unrelated)
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So, I found a bunch of federal felony cases that were all dropped AFTER the defendants entered guilty pleas. Why? The charges relied on reports by Antioch police officers. Several APD/PPD cops are being criminally investigated and it's affecting the justice system. More tmrw.
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I'm hearing that in a few hours Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce the release of thousands of people incarcerated in CA prisons. Number I'm hearing is 8,000 but we'll see
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#NEW
: Dozens of criminal cases have been dropped in Contra Costa County due to crime and misconduct by officers in Pittsburg and Antioch. This comes as we inch closer and closer to a possible indictment against several officers:
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The whole day has been law enforcement people getting angry or disappointed that I know something and asking me how I found out
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#NEW
: In Contra Costa, sheriff officials testified they let civilians and deputies take gun parts and ammo that had been marked for destruction from a department range, despite a penal code that says you can't do that: with
@ShomikMukherjee
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Should add Kanye to the next one to mellow things out a little
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Despite the Alameda County DA’s obfuscating press release tonight, her office has decided to drop sentencing enhancements in the killing of ex-cop and KRON4 security guard Kevin Nishita. But the reason why could change the prosecution’s whole theory:
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BIG update: Timothy Manly-Williams, who worked for both Antioch and Pittsburg PD, charged with obstructing ongoing homicide investigation. Multiple law enforcement sources told me that investigation involved a wiretap and Oakland gang-related murders and attempted murders.
#NEW
: Antioch and Pittsburg cops arrested in early morning FBI raids. Indictment has been filed:
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Isn't this what they think happened to the dinosaurs? The sun got blocked out by a giant cloud and everything slowly died?
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#BREAKING
: A judge has rejected a controversial plea deal involving Delonzo Logwood, the man accused of three Oakland killings who would have probably ended up serving less than 7 years through a plea deal This kind of thing almost never happens:
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Multiple sources have confirmed to
@daviddebolt
and I what
@OpenVallejo
reported earlier in the week, that the Vallejo police union pres was put on leave for destruction of evidence in the Sean Monterrosa shooting by a Vallejo detective:
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Three California DAs (and one DA candidate) have publicly called for the CA State Bar to prohibit DAs from accepting police union donor money, citing the potential conflicts of interest (real and perceived) that this poses:
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@agleader
Seems like the large scale equivalent of “gee I lost my hammer so lemme just hit this nail in with my forehead”
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A federal judge has allowed attorneys to file a new civil complaint alleging that the officer who tackled a Bay Area filmmaker was part of a 'vigilante police gang':
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#BREAKING
: California prison staff members were admonished to stop saying "racist" and "extremely hurtful" things about George Floyd, after several offensive social media posts were brought to the attention of CDCR Sec. Ralph Diaz:
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Update: We got names and charges
#NEW
: Antioch and Pittsburg cops arrested in early morning FBI raids. Indictment has been filed:
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#NEW
: Remember the couple from Martinez who painted over the BLM mural and got charged with a hate crime? Now they're facing charges of burglarizing a dead man's home in WC, and one got meth possession for sales charges too:
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#NEW
: A judge has thrown out two murder convictions after ruling prosecutors and police violated the Racial Justice Act and inflamed implicit bias of jurors by using the n-word when quoting rap lyrics in trial, and repeating certain slang terms:
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I'm gonna be on KQED radio discussing the RPD/OPD thing today. Dunno when. So make sure you tune in for hours on end just to listen to me talk for like 15 seconds
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#BREAKING
: Police confirmed an officer shot and killed a 22-year-old man, after allegedly mistaking a hammer in his waistband for a gun. The Chief of police was asked multiple times if it was excessive force. He either dodged the question or ignored it:
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Omg...People frantically try and free someone from burning car in San Pablo. This is a prime example why it's good to always a keep fire extinguisher in your car.
i80 San Pablo exit of San Pablo Lytton Casino i tried calling 911 and it has been busy
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#BREAKING
: Billionaire and software mogul Bob Brockman was indicted on tax evasion and money laundering charges in the biggest case of its kind in US history:
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Talked to a guy who spent 30 years in prison for a murder that he didn't commit. Judge not only threw out the charges but roasted the DA's office. Look for a story in probably like a day or two.
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Five Antioch/Pittsburg cops now accused of accepting
@TheRock
tequila and other bribes to make traffic tickets go away.
@ContraCostaDA
is filing this one:
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I’ve seen a lot of comments saying DA Price was justified in blocking the Berkeley Scanner cuz it hasn’t written enough positive things about her. Let’s take that fallacy to its logical conclusion…
Veteran reporter Emilie Raguso
@emraguso
of
@BerkeleyScanner
was barred from a news conference hosted by
@AlamedaCountyDA
Pamela Price. Her office issued this statement.
@DavidLoySD
@FACoalition
says DA runs afoul of 1st Amendment. 5,6:15 p.m.
@KTVU
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Ha. I haven’t won a journalism reward in about a decade but I am an award-winning subject
Honored that a story I wrote for
@CJR
won a Mirror Award last night for best profile. It was about the dwindling courts beat and why we need reporters like
@NateGartrell
. Big thx
@NewhouseSU
@BetsyMorais
& team. Congrats to all the finalists + winners!🙏
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I have covered a lot of officer-involved shootings but until now, never one where the officer ran up and started shooting without a single command like this:
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Over the last couple days,
@jcfphotog
has consistently put himself in harm's way to get photographs of protests, looting, and whatever else has been happening, and as usual the pics are amazing.
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This is the year we had massive layoffs that pretty much gutted our reporting and editing staff. I guess $41,000,000 in profit just wasn't enough
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One of our part-time sports writers was just arrested and charged with murdering his mom:
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....wtf is this either run a correction or retract the story or tell viewers why ur not doing that
NEW:
@abc7newsbayarea
quietly removes May 22 video report from website after 75-year-old crime victim told
@washingtonpost
she was pressed by
@DionLimTV
to make statements critical of San Francisco DA
@chesaboudin
based on false information
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I don't even know how to tease this story.
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#BREAKING
: Boogaloo militia member Steven Carrillo just pleaded guilty to killing FPS Ofc. Dave Patrick Underwood in May 2020 He admitted aligning with anti-government groups, plotting murders of law enforcement, and using a ghost gun in the shooting.
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#NEW
: A Contra Costa judge found Friday morning that Black people are disproportionally targeted with special circumstances gang charges in Contra Costa County, in a ruling that dismisses serious enhancements against four men:
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Well now we know who sent the anonymous email from Vallejo POA account to
@otisrtaylorjr
, not exactly the shocker of the year:
UPDATE: A
@VallejoPOA
attorney apologizes for e-mail sent by
@VallejoPd
Lt. Michael Nichelini, the union prez, to
@sfchronicle
columnist
@otisrtaylorjr
, who described it as “chilling.” Atty says email was a message of frustration & not a threat. 4:15, 5:15, 6:20, 7:15 p.m.
@KTVU
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@kanyewest
Good. I was starting to get worried that those people would spend their money on dumb stuff, like building schools in Africa
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After Underwood was killed, other Grizzly Scouts talked about going to protests disguised as Antifa and trying to get cops and Antifa to attack each other. “Them fucking each other only helps us,” said one member who’s since been accused of child enticement.
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#BREAKING
: A former public defender clerk was charged with murdering a witness on behalf of two East Bay gangs. When he was hired, he was fresh outta prison for killing a witness in a 2002 murder case. Can't make this stuff up:
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I’m gonna be on KQED later discussing shakeup at Alameda DA office and my dad’s gonna be on KCBS talking about the drought in California. Would be funny if they put us on at the same time
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The organization behind the killings of FPS Ofc. Pat Underwood and Santa Cruz Sheriff Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller is a prototype for the type of more fluid, 'pick your own ideology' extremism we're seeing with the proliferation of social media, says
@proflevin
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#NEW
: Federal prosecutors dropped more than a dozen cases involving officers from East Bay cities that are the subject of a widespread FBI probe into 'crimes of moral turpitude.' This includes people getting dismissals after pleading guilty:
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