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Lawsuit Filed in July Sacramento Shooting Death of Jeremy Southern by Sac PD

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 02, 2020
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Lawsuit Filed in July Sacramento Shooting Death of Jeremy Southern by Sac PD

By David M. Greenwald On Tuesday morning outside of the Sacramento Police Department on Freeport, attorne ...

By David M. Greenwald On Tuesday morning outside of the Sacramento Police Department on Freeport, attorneys, friends, family and supporters of Jeremy Southern gathered as Attorneys Adante Pointer and ...

September 02, 2020
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Legal Community Critics Largely Criticize Sacramento City Council Police Reforms

Posted by Cres Vellucci
|Date: July 08, 2020
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Legal Community Critics Largely Criticize Sacramento City Council Police Reforms

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – When the Sacramento City Council appr ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – When the Sacramento City Council approved relatively minor police reforms this past week – after massive calls to defund city police ...

July 08, 2020
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Sacramento Police Officers Choke Protestor

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 12, 2020
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Sacramento Police Officers Choke Protestor

by Julietta Bisharyan SACRAMENTO - One video shows Sacramento police officers choking a young black man w ...

by Julietta Bisharyan SACRAMENTO - One video shows Sacramento police officers choking a young black man while arresting him during a recent George Floyd protest. The young man was later identified by ...

June 12, 2020
| by Vanguard Court Watch Interns

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Video Footage Show Police Arresting and Attacking Journalists at Protests, Including Sacramento

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 11, 2020
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Video Footage Show Police Arresting and Attacking Journalists at Protests, Including Sacramento

By Linh Nguyen At George Floyd protests across the nation, journalists from various local and internation ...

By Linh Nguyen At George Floyd protests across the nation, journalists from various local and international news outlets are falling victim to police brutality and arrests while covering these news st ...

June 11, 2020
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‘Spit Bag’ Arrest of Frail Black Youth Leads to Lawsuit against City of Sacramento, Private Companies

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 24, 2020
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‘Spit Bag’ Arrest of Frail Black Youth Leads to Lawsuit against City of Sacramento, Private Companies

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – On April 21, 2019 – a little more tha ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – On April 21, 2019 – a little more than a year after unarmed Stephon Clark was gunned down by Sacramento city police in his grandpare ...

April 24, 2020
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1st Homeless Struck with COVID-19 May Be Victims of Sacramento City Hall Sweeps, Unions Charge

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 12, 2020
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1st Homeless Struck with COVID-19 May Be Victims of Sacramento City Hall Sweeps, Unions Charge

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Unions for the Sacramento and Califor ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Unions for the Sacramento and California homeless unions are charging the city of Sacramento is being less than truthful about wheth ...

April 12, 2020
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Vanguard Exclusive: Sac Police Protest Deal Expected; Fallout from Cop Killing Continues with New Federal Lawsuit

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 07, 2020
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Vanguard Exclusive: Sac Police Protest Deal Expected; Fallout from Cop Killing Continues with New Federal Lawsuit

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – City of Sacramento taxpayers here may ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – City of Sacramento taxpayers here may soon be taking an expensive double hit as a result of the fallout from the unlawful arrest of ...

March 07, 2020
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Cop Complaints Filed in Stockton over Alleged Officer Road Rage, in Sacramento over Abuse of Young Boy

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 20, 2019
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Cop Complaints Filed in Stockton over Alleged Officer Road Rage, in Sacramento over Abuse of Young Boy

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO/STOCKTON – In dueling news conferences Friday, c ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO/STOCKTON – In dueling news conferences Friday, complaints against police officers for damages involving excessive force – complaints are precur ...

October 20, 2019
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Sacramento Police ‘Cleared’ in Killing of Unarmed Stephon Clark – Community Reacts with Anger, Warnings

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 27, 2019
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Sacramento Police ‘Cleared’ in Killing of Unarmed Stephon Clark – Community Reacts with Anger, Warnings

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Reactions were swift and furious Thursday t ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Reactions were swift and furious Thursday to an official announcement that final investigations by federal authorities and the Sacramento ...

September 27, 2019
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Sacramento Judge’s 2nd Look at Cop File Yields Possible Fodder for Defense, Which Argued City Withheld Information

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 13, 2019
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Sacramento Judge’s 2nd Look at Cop File Yields Possible Fodder for Defense, Which Argued City Withheld Information

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – In a suspected “driving while Black” case h ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – In a suspected “driving while Black” case here, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Richard K. Sueyoshi did the very unusual. Sueyoshi ...

September 13, 2019
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Sacramento Taxpayers on Hook for $2.4 Million in ‘Partial’ City Payout for Stephon Clark Killing; Police Misdeeds Piling Up

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 06, 2019
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Sacramento Taxpayers on Hook for $2.4 Million in ‘Partial’ City Payout for Stephon Clark Killing; Police Misdeeds Piling Up

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – It’s literally next to impossible to keep u ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – It’s literally next to impossible to keep up with the numbers of lawsuits against the city of Sacramento for police excessive force – but, ...

September 06, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 9 – An Unlawful Arrest

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 26, 2019
| (1) Comment

Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 9 – An Unlawful Arrest

Anthony Hernandez was arrested and spent a month in custody because of racial profiling and presumptions ...

Anthony Hernandez was arrested and spent a month in custody because of racial profiling and presumptions by the arresting officer. It might have been far worse had it not been for the persistence of h ...

August 26, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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City Attorney, Sac Police Misled Judge about Officer’s Misdeeds? SPD Charged with Brutalizing Black Family

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 09, 2019
| (2) Comments

City Attorney, Sac Police Misled Judge about Officer’s Misdeeds? SPD Charged with Brutalizing Black Family

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The City Attorney and the Sacramento City P ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The City Attorney and the Sacramento City Police Dept may have misled a Superior Court judge in May when they failed to provide complete i ...

August 09, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Public Defender Seeks Proof Dirty Cops Lied, and Traffic Stop Brutalized Black Family

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 07, 2019
| (1) Comment

Public Defender Seeks Proof Dirty Cops Lied, and Traffic Stop Brutalized Black Family

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – There may, or may not be, a dirty cop behin ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – There may, or may not be, a dirty cop behind a simple traffic stop of a Black driver and his family that turned into a police dragnet with ...

June 07, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sacramento Police Dept Receives ‘F’ Grade in California Police Scoreboard, Ranks 66 in State

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 02, 2019
| (3) Comments

Sacramento Police Dept Receives ‘F’ Grade in California Police Scoreboard, Ranks 66 in State

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – In a just-released “California Police Score ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – In a just-released “California Police Scoreboard” – said to be the first-ever evaluation police violence and accountability of the state’s ...

June 02, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sacramento Sued for 84 Arrests at Police Brutality Protest

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 23, 2019
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Sacramento Sued for 84 Arrests at Police Brutality Protest

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The city and county of Sacramento – already ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The city and county of Sacramento – already targeted with multiple wrongful death and excessive force lawsuits for the killing of civilian ...

May 23, 2019
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Wrongful Arrest Leads to Lawsuit As Police Arrest Innocent Man on Gun Charges

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 22, 2019
| (2) Comments

Wrongful Arrest Leads to Lawsuit As Police Arrest Innocent Man on Gun Charges

Anthony Hernandez was arrested and spent a month in custody because of racial profiling and presumptions ...

Anthony Hernandez was arrested and spent a month in custody because of racial profiling and presumptions by the arresting officer. It might have been far worse had it not been for the persistence of ...

May 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Officer Response to Protests Shows the Police Still Don’t Get It

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 18, 2019
| (2) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Officer Response to Protests Shows the Police Still Don’t Get It

Two weeks ago, the Sacramento County DA declared that the officers in the Stephon Clark killing feared fo ...

Two weeks ago, the Sacramento County DA declared that the officers in the Stephon Clark killing feared for their lives and “acted lawfully under the circumstances.” Thus she argued that the shooting w ...

March 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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A ‘Mea Culpa’ It Wasn’t

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 13, 2019
| (1) Comment

A ‘Mea Culpa’ It Wasn’t

Sacramento Police Reasons for Arresting 84 on 51st Street Bridge Differ Greatly from View of Legal Observ ...

Sacramento Police Reasons for Arresting 84 on 51st Street Bridge Differ Greatly from View of Legal Observers, Clergy and Reporters By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Well, i ...

March 13, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Police Killings Fire Up Sacramento Heat Early – 84 Arrests Monday Didn’t Cool Things Off

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 07, 2019
| (18) Comments

Police Killings Fire Up Sacramento Heat Early – 84 Arrests Monday Didn’t Cool Things Off

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – It’s not summer here quite yet, but the hot ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – It’s not summer here quite yet, but the hot seat is getting warm, at least for the Sacramento City Council and Sacramento Police Chief Dan ...

March 07, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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