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Monday Morning Thoughts: December 4 Was the 50th Anniversary of the Murder of Fred Hampton

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|Date: December 09, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: December 4 Was the 50th Anniversary of the Murder of Fred Hampton

As someone born in 1972, I am too young to remember contemporaneous accounts of the death of Fred Hampt ...

As someone born in 1972, I am too young to remember contemporaneous accounts of the death of Fred Hampton and the trial that ultimately brought some measure of justice in 1982 – 13 years later. So h ...

December 09, 2019
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City of Stockton Settles Cop Killing Case with Family for $395,000

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|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

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|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

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

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|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’

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|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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Federal Trial: Mother of Slain Teen Shares Witness Stand with Cops Who Killed Him

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|Date: November 06, 2019
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Federal Trial: Mother of Slain Teen Shares Witness Stand with Cops Who Killed Him

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – The mother of a 16-year-old special needs son ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – The mother of a 16-year-old special needs son shared a U.S. District Court courtroom witness stand Tuesday with two of the police officers wh ...

November 06, 2019
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Witness Describes Shock on 1st Day of Federal Lawsuit against Stockton City Cops

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|Date: November 05, 2019
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Witness Describes Shock on 1st Day of Federal Lawsuit against Stockton City Cops

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – The testimony Monday on the first day of what ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – The testimony Monday on the first day of what is expected to be at least a two-week federal trial of the City of Stockton and two police offi ...

November 05, 2019
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Atatiana Jefferson’s Death Was a Failure of Policing, not the Failure of One Officer

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|Date: October 18, 2019
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Atatiana Jefferson’s Death Was a Failure of Policing, not the Failure of One Officer

By Sarah Lustbader Early Saturday morning, Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman, was at her ho ...

By Sarah Lustbader Early Saturday morning, Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman, was at her home in Texas playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew when police officers responded to a ...

October 18, 2019
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Fired Sacramento Cop Who Killed Twice Sues to Get His Job Back

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|Date: October 09, 2019
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Fired Sacramento Cop Who Killed Twice Sues to Get His Job Back

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Bad cops may not face criminal charges ofte ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Bad cops may not face criminal charges often, if at all in Sacramento. And they usually receive no or light discipline for use of excessiv ...

October 09, 2019
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Sheriff Shoots Man, Kills ‘Man’s Best Friend’ in their Own Home

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|Date: September 09, 2019
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Sheriff Shoots Man, Kills ‘Man’s Best Friend’ in their Own Home

(From Press Release – SF Public Defender’s Office) – On Thursday, September 5, 2019, SF Sheriff’s Deputi ...

(From Press Release – SF Public Defender’s Office) – On Thursday, September 5, 2019, SF Sheriff’s Deputies allegedly kicked in the door of a man’s Polk Street residence while attempting to serve a be ...

September 09, 2019
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Family of Willie McCoy Files Civil Rights Suit against Vallejo

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|Date: June 28, 2019
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Family of Willie McCoy Files Civil Rights Suit against Vallejo

Oakland – It has been four months since six Vallejo police officers shot Willie McCoy 25 times as he slep ...

Oakland – It has been four months since six Vallejo police officers shot Willie McCoy 25 times as he slept in his car. On Thursday, famed civil rights Attorney John Burris announced that they had fil ...

June 28, 2019
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Press Conference in Shooting of Vallejo Man (Exclusive Video)

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|Date: May 18, 2019
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Press Conference in Shooting of Vallejo Man (Exclusive Video)

This week, the Vallejo City Council was forced to empty its chambers at a regularly scheduled meeting Tue ...

This week, the Vallejo City Council was forced to empty its chambers at a regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, using more than a dozen armed and body-armored city police to force more than 100 residen ...

May 18, 2019
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Protest in Police Shooting Death Leads to Vallejo Mayor Shutting Down Council Meeting

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|Date: May 17, 2019
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Protest in Police Shooting Death Leads to Vallejo Mayor Shutting Down Council Meeting

By Crescenzo Vellucci VALLEJO – With the continuing “nightmare” – as many describe it – of unarmed reside ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci VALLEJO – With the continuing “nightmare” – as many describe it – of unarmed residents being killed by law enforcement through the state, U.S. and Northern California, yet anothe ...

May 17, 2019
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What Officer Noor’s Conviction Says about Racism in America

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|Date: May 04, 2019
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What Officer Noor’s Conviction Says about Racism in America

By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez On Tuesday, April 30, a Minnesota jury convicted police officer Mohamed ...

By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez On Tuesday, April 30, a Minnesota jury convicted police officer Mohamed Noor of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for shooting and killing Justine Da ...

May 04, 2019
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Advocates, Families of People Killed by California Police Claim Victory on Use of Force Legislation

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|Date: April 24, 2019
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Advocates, Families of People Killed by California Police Claim Victory on Use of Force Legislation

(From Press Release) – Today, the California Senate Public Safety Committee voted to pass Senate Bill 230 ...

(From Press Release) – Today, the California Senate Public Safety Committee voted to pass Senate Bill 230 with substantial amendments, including an amendment requiring that SB 230’s passage be conting ...

April 24, 2019
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Case Illustrates the Need For AB 392

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|Date: April 07, 2019
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Case Illustrates the Need For AB 392

By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez The events that led to the murder of Willie McCoy by City of Vallejo po ...

By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez The events that led to the murder of Willie McCoy by City of Vallejo police began with a 911 call came from a Taco Bell employee. In the recording, the employee sound ...

April 07, 2019
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Poor People’s Campaign Bus Tour in Capitol – Calls Stephon Clark Killing ‘Lynching’

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|Date: April 05, 2019
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Poor People’s Campaign Bus Tour in Capitol – Calls Stephon Clark Killing ‘Lynching’

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Poor People’s Campaign – a national org ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Poor People’s Campaign – a national organization dedicated to continuing the work of Martin Luther King Jr. and that last summer stage ...

April 05, 2019
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State of Civil Rights in Sacramento Panel Paints Dismal Picture

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|Date: April 02, 2019
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State of Civil Rights in Sacramento Panel Paints Dismal Picture

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Social justice leaders and civil rights law ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Social justice leaders and civil rights lawyers didn’t try to put a positive spin on the state of police shootings here at a “State of Civ ...

April 02, 2019
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Sacramento DA Called ‘Tyrant’ of Year as Personal Protests Ramp Up in Wake of Stephon Clark Decision

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|Date: March 31, 2019
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Sacramento DA Called ‘Tyrant’ of Year as Personal Protests Ramp Up in Wake of Stephon Clark Decision

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – When Sacramento County District Attorney An ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – When Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced about a month ago that she was not going to prosecute two Sacrament ...

March 31, 2019
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