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Postal Worker Files Civil Rights Suit, Claims Police Terrorized Him

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 30, 2020
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Postal Worker Files Civil Rights Suit, Claims Police Terrorized Him

By Julian Verdon SAN RAFAEL - Karl Bracy and his attorney, John Burris, announced the filing of a civil r ...

By Julian Verdon SAN RAFAEL - Karl Bracy and his attorney, John Burris, announced the filing of a civil rights lawsuit Thursday against the city of San Rafael and several of its officers after they cl ...

October 30, 2020
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Commentary: Officer is Fired in Vallejo, but the Firing Illustrates the Problem – Black Lives Don’t Matter to Police Officers

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 02, 2020
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Commentary: Officer is Fired in Vallejo, but the Firing Illustrates the Problem – Black Lives Don’t Matter to Police Officers

By David M. Greenwald You could say it is another illustration of how Black lives do not matter when it c ...

By David M. Greenwald You could say it is another illustration of how Black lives do not matter when it comes to police. The Vallejo Police Department announced on Thursday that it terminated Office ...

October 02, 2020
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Family of Man Killed by Walnut Creek Police Discuss Settlement, Son’s Mental Health Crisis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 22, 2020
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Family of Man Killed by Walnut Creek Police Discuss Settlement, Son’s Mental Health Crisis

By David M. Greenwald No amount of money will bring back Miles Hall, a young man shot and killed by Walnu ...

By David M. Greenwald No amount of money will bring back Miles Hall, a young man shot and killed by Walnut Creek police in June 2019, the family said on Monday at a press conference in front of their ...

September 22, 2020
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Burris Believes Vallejo Police Shooting of McCoy Unjustified

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 11, 2020
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Burris Believes Vallejo Police Shooting of McCoy Unjustified

While the region is focused on the June 2 killing of Sean Monterrosa by Vallejo police, Vallejo still has ...

While the region is focused on the June 2 killing of Sean Monterrosa by Vallejo police, Vallejo still has not resolved the 2019 shooting of Willie McCoy, where police fired more than 40 rounds into hi ...

August 11, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Next Time You Want to Argue It’s Just a Few Bad Apples Look No Further than Vallejo

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 27, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Next Time You Want to Argue It’s Just a Few Bad Apples Look No Further than Vallejo

We hear it all the time, when a police shooting occurs or there's another incident that cannot easily be ...

We hear it all the time, when a police shooting occurs or there's another incident that cannot easily be explained away, we hear from defenders of the police—it is just a few bad apples. The problem ...

July 27, 2020
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Did Vallejo Police Union President Destroy Evidence in Monterrosa Killing?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 26, 2020
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Did Vallejo Police Union President Destroy Evidence in Monterrosa Killing?

Multiple media reports over the weekend have noted that the president of the Vallejo police union is one ...

Multiple media reports over the weekend have noted that the president of the Vallejo police union is one of two police officers who has been suspended by the department, under investigation for destro ...

July 26, 2020
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Vallejo Mayoral Candidate Critical of Discarding Evidence in Police Killing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 20, 2020
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Vallejo Mayoral Candidate Critical of Discarding Evidence in Police Killing

Revelations are flying in Vallejo that police have lost or discarded key evidence. As a result, on Frida ...

Revelations are flying in Vallejo that police have lost or discarded key evidence. As a result, on Friday Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on the FBI to investigate the shooting of Sean Monterrosa. After ...

July 20, 2020
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Pelosi Calls for FBI Investigation into Vallejo Shooting; AG Investigating Destruction of Evidence (Updated)

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 18, 2020
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Pelosi Calls for FBI Investigation into Vallejo Shooting; AG Investigating Destruction of Evidence (Updated)

(Saturday Morning Update) On Friday evening, Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued a statement announcin ...

(Saturday Morning Update) On Friday evening, Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued a statement announcing that the California Department of Justice (DOJ) is stepping in to investigate the alleged des ...

July 18, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Unarmed Man is Shot 18 times, His Unborn Child Also Died, Family is Suing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 14, 2020
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Unarmed Man is Shot 18 times, His Unborn Child Also Died, Family is Suing

Oakland - Veteran Civil Rights Attorney John Burris, who has represented such high profile police inciden ...

Oakland - Veteran Civil Rights Attorney John Burris, who has represented such high profile police incidents as the beating of Rodney King and the killing of Oscar Grant, calls the shooting death of Er ...

July 14, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Vallejo Releases Video Which Does Not Show the Monterrosa Shooting

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 09, 2020
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Vallejo Releases Video Which Does Not Show the Monterrosa Shooting

Bowing to pressure as well as the state law, Vallejo has finally released the video of the June 2 fatal s ...

Bowing to pressure as well as the state law, Vallejo has finally released the video of the June 2 fatal shooting of 22-year-old Sean Monterroa, a San Francisco man, at the hands of Vallejo police offi ...

July 09, 2020
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Attorneys for Monterrosa Family Demand Solano DA Prosecute Officer Who Killed the Young Man

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 23, 2020
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Attorneys for Monterrosa Family Demand Solano DA Prosecute Officer Who Killed the Young Man

Make no mistake, when the video of the shooting death of Sean Monterrosa at the hands of Vallejo police b ...

Make no mistake, when the video of the shooting death of Sean Monterrosa at the hands of Vallejo police becomes available and it’s as bad as family and supporters of the 23-year-old say, when he was g ...

June 23, 2020
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Huge and Angry Protest Remains Peaceful in Vallejo over Shooting Death

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 14, 2020
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Huge and Angry Protest Remains Peaceful in Vallejo over Shooting Death

Vallejo, CA - The latest in a long series of officer-involved shootings in Vallejo led to an angry march ...

Vallejo, CA - The latest in a long series of officer-involved shootings in Vallejo led to an angry march and demonstration on Saturday, as a crowd of what appeared to be more than 500 people came to s ...

June 14, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Police Shooting in Vallejo Leads to AG Investigation into Troubled Department

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 06, 2020
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Police Shooting in Vallejo Leads to AG Investigation into Troubled Department

For years civil rights attorney John Burris has been trying to get the California Attorney General’s offi ...

For years civil rights attorney John Burris has been trying to get the California Attorney General’s office to investigate the Vallejo Police Department—which has seen an unusually large number of off ...

June 06, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Civil Rights Firm Files Claim after Deputy Beats 14-Year-Old after Flavored Cigar Incident

Posted by Cres Vellucci
|Date: May 05, 2020
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Civil Rights Firm Files Claim after Deputy Beats 14-Year-Old after Flavored Cigar Incident

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – A prominent Bay Area civil rights fir ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – A prominent Bay Area civil rights firm filed a claim – the precursor to filing a federal civil rights complaint – with the Sacrament ...

May 05, 2020
| by Cres Vellucci

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Law Firm that Takes On Police Shooting Victims Targets Nursing Home after COVID-19 Death

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 14, 2020
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Law Firm that Takes On Police Shooting Victims Targets Nursing Home after COVID-19 Death

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief OAKLAND – A law firm often known for taking on gov ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief OAKLAND – A law firm often known for taking on government in the courts on behalf of police shooting victims – most of them people of color – Mon ...

April 14, 2020
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City of Stockton Settles Cop Killing Case with Family for $395,000

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 06, 2019
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City of Stockton Settles Cop Killing Case with Family for $395,000

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The long, long journey for Dionne Smith-Dow ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The long, long journey for Dionne Smith-Downs since her 16 year-old son James Rivera Jr. was shot and killed by Stockton police officers n ...

December 06, 2019
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Judge Declares Mistrial in Stockton Cop Killing Case after Jury Deadlocks

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 13, 2019
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Judge Declares Mistrial in Stockton Cop Killing Case after Jury Deadlocks

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – The judge in a federal civil rights trial here ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – The judge in a federal civil rights trial here of two Stockton police officers who killed a 16-year-old special needs teen nearly 10 years ag ...

November 13, 2019
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Federal Jury Deliberates If Police Used Excessive Force in Shooting Death of Special Needs Teen Driving Stolen Van

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 11, 2019
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Federal Jury Deliberates If Police Used Excessive Force in Shooting Death of Special Needs Teen Driving Stolen Van

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Civil rights attorney John Burris didn’t bothe ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Civil rights attorney John Burris didn’t bother to mince words in his closing arguments for the family of a 16-year-old special needs teen ki ...

November 11, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Police Use of Force Experts in Federal Civil Rights Trial Disagree on Stockton Officers’ Decision to Kill Teen

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 08, 2019
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Police Use of Force Experts in Federal Civil Rights Trial Disagree on Stockton Officers’ Decision to Kill Teen

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – A day after one police procedures expert empha ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – A day after one police procedures expert emphatically maintained Stockton police officers made a “tactical error” by shooting and killing all ...

November 08, 2019
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DAY 3: Police Procedures Expert Testifies in Shooting that Killed Stockton Teen Was ‘Tactical Error’

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 07, 2019
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DAY 3: Police Procedures Expert Testifies in Shooting that Killed Stockton Teen Was ‘Tactical Error’

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Day Three in a U.S. District Court civil trial ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Day Three in a U.S. District Court civil trial here Wednesday of Stockton city police officers who participated in the 2010 killing of 16-yea ...

November 07, 2019
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