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Governor Signs Use-of-Force Bill to Require Police Use Deadly Force Only When Necessary

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|Date: August 20, 2019
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Governor Signs Use-of-Force Bill to Require Police Use Deadly Force Only When Necessary

California Families Celebrate as Governor Signs One of the Strongest Police Use of Force Laws in the Coun ...

California Families Celebrate as Governor Signs One of the Strongest Police Use of Force Laws in the Country Special To the Vanguard On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom, as expected, signed AB 392, autho ...

August 20, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Body Cameras Aren’t Having the Impact That Some Expected… But Those People Didn’t Understand Psychology

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|Date: June 23, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Body Cameras Aren’t Having the Impact That Some Expected… But Those People Didn’t Understand Psychology

In 1991, an amateur video surfaced of police officers badly beating motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles. ...

In 1991, an amateur video surfaced of police officers badly beating motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles. Much of the nation was shocked to see such a display of wanton brutality – but the reality tha ...

June 23, 2019
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Black Boys Aren’t “Wolf Packs” and Abusive Prosecutors Aren’t “Lone Wolves”

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|Date: June 19, 2019
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Black Boys Aren’t “Wolf Packs” and Abusive Prosecutors Aren’t “Lone Wolves”

By Somil Trivedi and Nusrat Choudhury Ava Duvernay’s new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrow ...

By Somil Trivedi and Nusrat Choudhury Ava Duvernay’s new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrowing story of the five Black and Latinx boys wrongfully imprisoned for the rape and near murder ...

June 19, 2019
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Commentary: Did Democrats Sell Out on Police Use of Force?

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|Date: May 31, 2019
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Commentary: Did Democrats Sell Out on Police Use of Force?

Reaction to the compromise of AB 392, the police use-of-force bill co-authored by Shirley Weber and Kevin ...

Reaction to the compromise of AB 392, the police use-of-force bill co-authored by Shirley Weber and Kevin McCarty, varies. Some are calling it a sellout, others believe California could have the stri ...

May 31, 2019
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Student Walkout, March to Capitol Marks Black Panther Gun Protest and Bill to Hold Police Accountable

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|Date: May 04, 2019
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Student Walkout, March to Capitol Marks Black Panther Gun Protest and Bill to Hold Police Accountable

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A little more than 50 years ago, two dozen ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A little more than 50 years ago, two dozen gun-carrying Black Panthers entered the State Capitol to oppose gun legislation – at that time ...

May 04, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Former Police Officer Supports AB 392

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|Date: April 30, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Former Police Officer Supports AB 392

By Cheryl Dorsey I spent twenty years as a Los Angeles Police Department officer and patrol sergeant. I’m ...

By Cheryl Dorsey I spent twenty years as a Los Angeles Police Department officer and patrol sergeant. I’m also a black woman and a mother to four sons. In 2014, a spate of deadly police use-of-force k ...

April 30, 2019
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EXCLUSIVE: Vanguard Learns Mass Student Walkout Set in May to Push for Police Gun Reform

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|Date: April 19, 2019
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EXCLUSIVE: Vanguard Learns Mass Student Walkout Set in May to Push for Police Gun Reform

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A coalition of Black Students has revealed ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A coalition of Black Students has revealed to the Davis Vanguard that it is organizing – along with students groups throughout the state a ...

April 19, 2019
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Raucous Rally at Capitol for Curbing Premature Lethal Force by Law Enforcement Precedes Important Assembly Vote

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|Date: April 09, 2019
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Raucous Rally at Capitol for Curbing Premature Lethal Force by Law Enforcement Precedes Important Assembly Vote

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Several hundred people – including lawmaker ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Several hundred people – including lawmakers, family of victims killed by police and celebrities – rallied for passage at the State Capito ...

April 09, 2019
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Judge Authorizes San Francisco to Release Records in Police Killings and Misconduct cases

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|Date: March 31, 2019
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Judge Authorizes San Francisco to Release Records in Police Killings and Misconduct cases

(From Press Release) - Today, a judge authorized the release of all records of San Francisco police offic ...

(From Press Release) - Today, a judge authorized the release of all records of San Francisco police officers involved in shootings, killings and other serious misconduct, as legally required under SB ...

March 31, 2019
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Dolores Huerta Draws Attention to Latinos Killed by the Police in Pushing For AB 392

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|Date: March 30, 2019
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Dolores Huerta Draws Attention to Latinos Killed by the Police in Pushing For AB 392

While much of the attention in recent years has focused on African Americans killed in disproportionate n ...

While much of the attention in recent years has focused on African Americans killed in disproportionate numbers by the police, longtime civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, in a recent op-ed in the Sac ...

March 30, 2019
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ACLU of California Launches Radio Ad Campaign in Support of AB 392 to Reduce Number of Police Shootings

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|Date: March 20, 2019
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ACLU of California Launches Radio Ad Campaign in Support of AB 392 to Reduce Number of Police Shootings

(From Press Release)–One year after the tragic shooting death of Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s backy ...

(From Press Release)–One year after the tragic shooting death of Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento, the ACLU of California is launching an advertising buy in support of legisla ...

March 20, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Stephon Clark’s Death Will Lead to Changes

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|Date: March 10, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Stephon Clark’s Death Will Lead to Changes

If people want to understand better the impact of the protests against the Sacramento DA and AG’s office ...

If people want to understand better the impact of the protests against the Sacramento DA and AG’s office over the failure to bring forward criminal complaints against the officers, we should look to t ...

March 10, 2019
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Commentary: Racism Continues to Lie Just Below the Surface

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|Date: January 21, 2019
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Commentary: Racism Continues to Lie Just Below the Surface

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he mu ...

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.” - Martin Luther King The comments ma ...

January 21, 2019
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Police Transparency Remains Uneven At Best

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|Date: December 20, 2018
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Police Transparency Remains Uneven At Best

While the passage of the First Step Act and its passage represents a tremendous step forward for criminal ...

While the passage of the First Step Act and its passage represents a tremendous step forward for criminal justice reformers in that the sentencing reform passed overwhelmingly 87-12, but one Amendment ...

December 20, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: What the Conviction of Officer Van Dyke for Murder Means

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|Date: October 08, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: What the Conviction of Officer Van Dyke for Murder Means

With everything else happening, many may not have noticed a very consequential jury verdict in the 2014 s ...

With everything else happening, many may not have noticed a very consequential jury verdict in the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago PD Officer Jason Van Dyke. On Friday, Mr. Van ...

October 08, 2018
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The Ferguson Effect: Why Wesley Bell’s Primary Victory in St. Louis Matters

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|Date: August 13, 2018
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The Ferguson Effect: Why Wesley Bell’s Primary Victory in St. Louis Matters

By Frank Leon Roberts On Tuesday, in what will go down as one of the most stunning political upsets in St ...

By Frank Leon Roberts On Tuesday, in what will go down as one of the most stunning political upsets in St. Louis County history, Wesley Bell, a criminal justice reform advocate, unseated Bob McCulloc ...

August 13, 2018
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Two Years after the Police Killing of Philando Castile, Justice Continues to Be Denied

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|Date: July 07, 2018
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Two Years after the Police Killing of Philando Castile, Justice Continues to Be Denied

By Teresa Nelson On July 7, 2016, the day after the shooting of Philando Castile, artists from the Twin C ...

By Teresa Nelson On July 7, 2016, the day after the shooting of Philando Castile, artists from the Twin Cities came together to create a public mural to process their shock and grief. In stark black a ...

July 07, 2018
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Will California Pass the Biggest Change to Police Use of Force in the Nation?

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|Date: July 01, 2018
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Will California Pass the Biggest Change to Police Use of Force in the Nation?

It was a rare site to see members of the Senate Public Safety Committee buck objections from law enforcem ...

It was a rare site to see members of the Senate Public Safety Committee buck objections from law enforcement groups used to having their way, and by a 5-2 vote advance AB 931, which would change the v ...

July 01, 2018
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How California Can Reduce the Number of Police Shootings

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|Date: April 18, 2018
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How California Can Reduce the Number of Police Shootings

By Peter Bibring Police in California have a problem with deadly force. Last year, police shot and killed ...

By Peter Bibring Police in California have a problem with deadly force. Last year, police shot and killed 162 people in the state, half of whom did not have guns. California departments have some of t ...

April 18, 2018
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Police Get a Green Light to Shoot First and Think Later

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|Date: April 14, 2018
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Police Get a Green Light to Shoot First and Think Later

By Emma Andersson The Supreme Court just ruled that a police officer could not be sued for gunning down A ...

By Emma Andersson The Supreme Court just ruled that a police officer could not be sued for gunning down Amy Hughes. This has vast implications for law enforcement accountability. The details of the ca ...

April 14, 2018
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