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Tyrell Wilson was a young black man who was temporarily unsheltered and had a history of mental health struggles, which likely resulted from trauma sustained in a childhood car accident. Though he grew up in Orange County, he had some family ties in the Bay. In the winter of 2020 he began to sleep on a solitary bench in the Danville Park and Ride near an entrance to the CA 680 highway. He tried to blend into the peaceful surroundings, keeping his temporary living space tidy, and he maintained a respectful relationship with all the bus drivers and riders who would pass by the stop. No unbiased observer could ever label him threatening and the Danville Police had been aware of his presence there for months.

On that fateful day in March, the police were supposedly responding to calls of rocks being thrown off an overpass (no evidence of this has been released). When Officer Andrew Hall arrived at the broad suburban intersection just before noon, he found Tyrell crossing the street, outside of the crosswalk, holding a paper shopping bag. Less than 30 seconds after Hall began to approach Tyrell, he shot Tyrell, once, in the face. Moments earlier, Tyrell told Hall that he didn’t want to interact and boldly challenged his authority, when Hall continued to aggressively close in on him, Tyrell produced a small knife. Rather than back away and pursue de-escalation, knowing no members of the public were in danger, Andrew Hall used deadly force, publicly executing Tyrell as onlookers pleaded “don’t shoot”.

Tyrell’s legacy won’t be defined by tragedy. He may no longer have a voice, but he made his wish to be an organ donor clear when he had one. Now he lives on through the gifts of life that he gave four people, including his uncle. For the thousands of people on organ transplant waiting lists, one family’s incomparable loss could mean another’s chance at life. Read more about Tyrell’s Purpose and how you can follow in his footsteps and be a donor hero.

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Like Laudemer’s family ,Tyrell’s family had struggled to get adequate support for their adult child’s mental illness. In the wake of this tragedy, both families have the same primary concern: that Andrew Hall is never allowed to work in law enforcement again. They never want a third family to go through what they’re going through now. Accountability is also important to them, and they want to see charges brought against Andrew Hall for killing Tyrell.

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2022-03-13 Father of man killed by Danville officer says no amount of money will bring back son The father of the Tyrell Wilson, who was shot and killed by Danville police officer Andrew Hall, said he wants Hall to be criminally charged for killing his son.

2022-03-11 Family Of Tyrell Wilson Reaches $4.5M Settlement With Contra Costa County Over Killing By Deputy

Contra Costa County has agreed to pay $4.5 million to the family of a mentally ill homeless man who was killed by a sheriff’s deputy in a 30-second confrontation. The lawsuit settlement, reported Thursday by the Bay Area News Group, involves the March 2021 shooting of Tyrell Wilson in the East Bay community of Danville. Wilson refused to drop a knife he was holding but didn’t approach the deputy before he was shot in the face, according to body camera footage released by the Sheriff’s Department.

The deputy, Andrew Hall, also shot and killed another mentally ill man in 2018 during a slow-speed car chase in Danville. Hall had stood in front of the vehicle and fired 10 shots through the windshield and passenger side window. Hall told investigators he was afraid Laudemer Arboleda, 33, would run him down. Arboleda was unarmed. Last fall, Contra Costa County agreed to pay $4.9 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Arboleda’s family.

2021-10-15 Tyrell Wilson: Killed for being Black and houseless in Klanville aka Danville “Tyrell was a peaceful man; he was always so careful, and I never felt threatened near him.” This poverty skola had the blessing of speaking with life-long resident of Klanville, Veronica Benjamin, on Po Peoples Radio. She is one of the founders of Conscious Contra Costa County and organized a powerful and prayerful multi-racial action for Tyrell six months after his murder by Sheriff Deputy Andrew Hall in March.

The rally was held to bring attention to 33-year-old Tyrell’s life and the life of 33-year-old Laudemer Arboleda in 2018, also killed by a racist with a weapon – aka Andrew Hall. The Arboleda family’s attorney, John Burris, said about the charges filed against Hall: “Our view was if they had been prosecuted earlier our second client would not be dead.” “We held this event today because we are still waiting for justice for Tyrell,” Veronica said at the rally.

2021-04-23 California officer charged in previous shooting kills Black man at intersection, video shows A white sheriff’s deputy in the San Francisco Bay Area shot and killed a Black man in the middle of a busy intersection about a minute after trying to stop him on suspicion of throwing rocks at cars last month, newly released video showed. The graphic body-camera footage shows Andrew Hall shooting Tyrell Wilson, 33, within seconds of asking him to drop a knife on 11 March in Danville.

The footage was released on Wednesday, the same day prosecutors charged Hall with manslaughter and assault in the fatal shooting of an unarmed civilian more than two years ago, and intensified criticism of local prosecutors for not taking a quicker decision in the 2018 killing.

2021-04-21 Body Cam Video: Contra Costa County Sheriff releases footage of Tyrell Wilson’s police killing The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday released body cam footage of the fatal police shooting of Tyrell Wilson on March 11, 2021.

2021-04-21 Bodycam Footage Is Released Of Officer Fatally Shooting 32-Year-Old, Tyrell Wilson, For Jay Walking With A Knife In His Hand In California!

2021-04-21 KQED -Video Footage of Tyrell Wilson Killing Released – as Same Danville Officer Charged in Another Death Only a day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, the East Bay town of Danville is facing its own reckoning over two police killings.

Andrew Hall, a police officer in Danville, which contracts law enforcement services from the Contra Costa County Sheriff, has been charged with felony voluntary manslaughter and felony assault with a semi-automatic firearm in the 2018 killing of Laudemer Arboleda, the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

Hall’s shooting of Arboleda was “without lawful excuse or justification,” the District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. If found guilty, Hall faces a possible 22-year prison sentence and would be barred from being a peace officer. “Ultimately, I’m confident a jury of officer Hall’s peers will review this case … and ultimately hold officer Hall accountable,” District Attorney Diana Becton said at a press conference Wednesday. “The unnecessary death of Mister Arboleda underscores the need for law enforcement personnel to better understand those who are suffering from mental illness.”

Just hours before the DA’s charging announcement, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office released grisly, graphic video footage of the incident Burris was referring to: Hall shooting 32-year-old Tyrell Wilson, a homeless man whose family says suffered from schizophrenia, on March 11 of this year.

The newly released video — compiled from footage taken by Hall’s body camera, citizen dash cam footage and stationary city-operated cameras — shows Hall exiting his police vehicle and making contact with Wilson before pursuing him on foot across the broad, busy intersection of Sycamore Valley Road and Camino Ramon, adjacent to the I-680 interchange in Danville, then shooting and killing him in the middle of the intersection, all in under one minute.

Video of Fatal Danville Police Shooting Shows Officer Firing at Slow-Moving Vehicle

An attorney for Arboleda’s mother, prominent civil rights attorney John Burris, supported the charges – but he said serious harm may have come from waiting more than two years to make them.

“In this instance, the delay in prosecuting Hall is particularly hurtful because Hall recently shot and killed a homeless man, Tyrell Wilson, under very questionable circumstances,” Burris said. “Wilson could be alive if Hall were prosecuted earlier.”

The video begins with Hall’s body cam footage, which was activated as he approached the intersection in response to 911 calls about someone throwing rocks off the Sycamore Valley Road overpass onto the I-680 freeway below.

Hall gets out of his vehicle and calls out to Wilson, who is walking into the intersection, saying, “Hey buddy, come here real quick! Come here!”

Wilson refuses and continues walking away from Hall across the intersection, saying, “Who are you?”

Hall says, “You’re jaywalking now … We’re not playing this game dude.”

After continuing to pursue Wilson on foot into the intersection, Hall identifies himself as “Officer Andrew Hall of Danville Police,” to which Wilson responds, “From where? Authority of what?”

Hall closes the distance between them as Wilson stands still for a moment, before Wilson begins walking backward, away from Hall, holding a paper bag in one hand and what appears to be a small knife in the other.

“Don’t fucking touch me,” Wilson says as he begins to walk backward. “Touch me and see what’s up.”

Hall yells, “Drop the knife” as Wilson stops in the street and says, “No … Kill me,” while tapping his chest.

Wilson then takes a couple slow, halting steps forward. Hall yells, “Drop the knife” twice more, and shoots Wilson once. Wilson immediately collapses. Responding emergency personnel work to save his life, repeating, “Stay with us, stay with us,” as they roll him onto his side. Wilson died a week later.

The Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office framed the footage as exonerating Hall.

“Any loss of life is tragic, but the community can now see the truth,” said Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston in a statement. “Tyrell Wilson did in fact threaten the lives of passing motorists by throwing objects, possibly rocks, from the overpass down onto Highway 680. He was found with numerous rocks in his jacket pocket. He did pull a knife on Officer Hall. He did threaten Officer Hall. And he did start advancing toward Officer Hall in the middle of a major intersection. Officers are forced to make split second decisions to protect themselves and the public and that’s what happened here.”

Officers are generally trained to see a suspect with a knife in close quarters as a deadly threat. But a newly enacted California use-of-force standard under Assembly Bill 392 says officers should only use deadly force when other options aren’t feasible.

Alternatives to deadly force could include what the bill calls “tactical repositioning” to create time and distance between an officer and a person representing a threat.

Hall began working for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office in 2013. Just a year later, he was accused of excessive force by a person incarcerated at the Martinez Detention Facility, who alleged Hall “brutally attacked” him, and was subsequently beaten by other deputies. The Contra Costa Sheriff’s investigation exonerated Hall of any wrongdoing, and the investigation notes that injuries sustained by the prisoner may have been pre-existing, though reinjured in the fight with deputies.

In 2018, Hall, who became a contract officer for the town of Danville, responded to a call of a “strange individual lurking around” property near Cottage Lane and Laurel Drive in Danville. Officers tried to pull over Arboleda, who stopped twice but then took off again when officers got out of their cars, according to previous statements on the shooting released by the Sheriff’s Office.

Video of Arboleda’s death was obtained in 2019 by the California Reporting Project, a coalition of news organizations (including KQED) seeking records from law enforcement agencies under a new state transparency law.

The footage showed Hall shot and killed Laudemer Arboleda as Arboleda attempted to drive through a gap between two police cars.

State policing standards generally advise officers against shooting into moving vehicles, warning that doing so carries a great potential risk of death not only for the vehicle occupants, but police and bystanders. In particular, state policing standards warn against officers placing themselves in the direct path of a moving vehicle, as Hall appeared to do when he shot into Arboleda’s vehicle.

Hall was placed on administrative leave after the Wilson shooting.

2021-03-29 Protesters criticize Danville police over Tyrell Wilson shooting

2021-04-06 Family of Black man fatally shot by Northern California police officer files civil rights lawsuit (CNN)The family of a 32-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by a Northern California police officer last month has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the town and police officers after video which captured a part of the shooting emerged.

A video released Tuesday by family attorney shows the last seconds of the encounter between Tyrell Wilson and a Danville, California, police officer on March 11. Wilson was carrying a grocery bag, walking by himself across a street toward his homeless encampment, according to a statement from his family’s attorney John Burris.

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Laudemer Arboleda

Posted on July 13, 2022 by mekorganic

Laudemer Arboleda, a 33 year old Filipino-American man, had been living in Newark, CA with his family. He was fatally shot by a Danville Police Officer, Andrew Hall, on November 3rd 2018, after a slow speed chase along meandering suburban streets. He had a history of mental health struggles and was likely looking for a property manager’s office when he came to Danville that fateful day. A resident had reported a suspicious person to the police and they responded to it as a routine call. Laudemer, perhaps due to his increasing paranoia, refused to stop. Since he had committed no crime, the primary responding officers were about the call off the pursuit when it was proving to be too much effort with too little basis for a police response. That is when Andrew Hall came barreling around the corner, nearly hitting Laudemer’s car head-on.

He was not authorized to create a blockade, nor was he even supposed to respond at all without authorization. Hall exited his vehicle, ran around the back of his own car to a gap between two police cars where Laudemer was trying to maneuver through, and he fired ten rounds into Laudemer’s car, striking him nine times.

Laudemer should still be alive today. Being a person of color with a mental illness should not be a risk factor for dying at the hands of police. Laudemer’s family struggled to get him adequate care. In addition to demanding that Andrew Hall never work in law enforcement again, they want to see more resources made available for families like theirs who struggled to get support for a loved one with mental illness.

Laudemer was one of three siblings raised by a single mother who had emigrated from the Philippines. As a small child, Laudemer contracted meningitis which lead to a lengthy hospitalization and he was even momentarily declared dead. This traumatic childhood experience possibly contributed to his mental illness later in life. The whole while, Laudemer’s family worked hard to get him adequate, affordable, care, often encountering dead ends. In addition to demanding that Andrew Hall never work in law enforcement again, they want to see more resources made available for families like theirs who struggle to get support for a loved one living with mental illness. Conscious Contra Costa

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2022-07-08 Danville sets 10-year record for sheriff’s office liability costs Danville ranks at the top of liability costs among the other two cities that contract with the county sheriff’s office for police services, following two costly and high-profile cases brought after former Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy Andrew Hall’s shooting deaths of two men in the town. The total of $9,527,081 in costs for Danville in the 2021-22 fiscal year brought its 10-year total for liability costs to $10,667,351, according to data reviewed by the Board of Supervisors in a report presented at its June 21 meeting. The more than $9 million in liability costs in Danville in the current fiscal year also accounted for a majority of the $11,091,899 in costs for all three incorporations that contract for police services with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office over the past decade. Lafayette and Orinda, the other two cities, had costs amounting to $410,629 and $13,919 respectively over the past 10 years.

2022-03-11 Family Of Tyrell Wilson Reaches $4.5M Settlement With Contra Costa County Over Killing By Deputy

2022-03-04 Deputy sentenced to 6 years for shooting Laudemer Arboleda A Contra Costa Sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Friday to serve six years in state prison for fatally shooting Laudemer Arboleda in downtown Danville. Deputy Andrew Hall was convicted by a jury of assault with a firearm and inflicting great bodily injury for shooting Arboleda nine times on November 3, 2018.

2022-03-04 Hall Sentencing: Andrew Hall Sentenced To Prison For Fatal OIS Slaying Of Laudemer Arboleda Former Danville Police Officer Andrew Hall was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for the shooting death of Laudemer Arboleda.

2021-11-00 Guilty Verdict In Case Of Danville Deputy Accused Of Killing Laudemer Arboleda Killing

2021-11-03 Laudemer Arboleda’s Family Marks 3rd Anniversary of Fatal Danville Officer-Involved Shooting KRON4 DANVILLE (KPIX) — Gathered in front of the Danville Public Library, a group of mothers, members of an unfortunate sorority of women who lost their sons in police shootings, came to mark the three-year anniversary of Laudemer Arboleda’s death.

2021-10-27 California deputy convicted of firearm assault in death of mentally ill man shot 9 times However, the jury deadlocked on another and more serious count of voluntary manslaughter in the death of 33-year-old Laudemer Arboleda.

2021-10-27 Contra Costa County To Pay $4.9M Settlement In Police Killing Of Laudemer Arboleda MARTINEZ (CBS SF) — Contra Costa County will pay $4.9 million to the family of Laudemer Arboleda, the Newark man killed by former Danville police officer Andrew Hall in 2018.

County spokesperson Susan Shiu said Wednesday a settlement has been reached, but hasn’t been signed yet by both parties. Family attorney Adante Pointer said “I expect my client to sign it within the next few days, or whenever (Arboleda’s mother Jeannie Atienza) is ready to deal with it. This process has taken a heavy toll on the mother and the family as a whole.”

Hall was convicted of assault with a firearm in Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez on Tuesday for shooting Arboleda. The jury couldn’t reach a decision on the related manslaughter charge.

On Nov. 3, 2018, Arboleda led Danville police on a slow-speed pursuit after someone called the police in response to the Newark man knocking on their door. Arboleda pulled over multiple times, only to drive away from police. At one point, officers drew their guns without shooting as Arboleda drove away.

2021-10-26 Raw Video: Attorney for Laudemer Arboleda Family Remarks After Andrew Hall Verdict A mistrial was declared in the manslaughter trial of Andrew Hall, a Danville police officer and Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy accused in the 2018 shooting death three years ago of Laudemer Arboleda.

2021-10-26 Guilty Verdict In Case Of Danville Deputy Accused Of Killing Laudemer Arboleda Killing A mistrial was declared in the manslaughter trial of Andrew Hall, a Danville police officer and Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy accused in the 2018 shooting death three years ago of Laudemer Arboleda.

2021-10-21 Laudemer Arboleda Fatal Shooting: Danville Officer Andrew Hall Trial Heads To Closing Arguments MARTINEZ (CBS SF/BCN) — Prosecutors said Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall wasn’t acting in self-defense when he shot Laudemer Arboleda nine times on Nov. 3, 2018, while Hall’s lawyers said during closing arguments Thursday that Hall had no choice.

Judge Terri Mockler gave the jury its final instructions before recessing court until Monday. Thursday’s session painted two very different versions of what happened nearly three years ago, after Laudemer led police on a slow-speed pursuit through Danville that began over a “suspicious person” report and ended with Hall shooting the 33-year-old as he tried to drive away between police vehicles.

Danville contracts with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department for police services. Hall faces charges of voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm, both felonies. He pleaded not guilty in June and is currently on paid administrative leave.

A sheriff’s investigation after the 2018 incident cleared Hall of any wrongdoing in Arboleda’s death. The district attorney announced it was pressing charges in the 2018 case after Hall was involved in a second fatal shooting in Danville earlier this year. On March 11, Hall responded to reports of a man throwing rocks onto Interstate Highway 680 from the Sycamore Valley Road and shot 32-year-old transient Tyrell Wilson who approached him with a folding knife.

The families of the deceased in both incidents said the men suffered from mental health issues.

On Thursday, much of the debate between sides was over what Hall knew when he entered the situation, with Arboleda stopped with two police units behind him at the corner of Front Street and Diablo Road.

2021-05-20 Justice delayed? In wealthy California town, officer kills 2 Just past the Village Theatre and a quaint corner chocolate shop is the intersection where Officer Andrew Hall shot and killed a 33-year-old mentally ill man in 2018. History repeated itself this spring, when Hall fired his gun and killed another 33-year-old mentally ill man on the streets of this wealthy San Francisco suburb.

The Town of Danville is not accustomed to gun violence. This well-manicured place of multimillion-dollar homes regularly tops lists of the safest and wealthiest places to live in California. The two fatal shootings by the same officer in a 2 1/2-year span have now cast a spotlight on Danville, where criminal justice activists say the wheels of justice turned far too slowly and had deadly consequences.

Many of the questions residents are posing at Danville town council meetings and in emotionally charged neighborhood conversations echo those America is asking of policing nationwide. Was the officer’s use of deadly force justified or excessive?

2021-04-22 California Officer, on Leave After One Shooting, Is Charged in Another, From 2018

2019-12-06 Laudemer Arboleda: Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office release deputy-involved shooting video

2019-12-06 Video of Fatal Danville Police Shooting Shows Officer Firing at Slow-Moving Vehicle Newly released video of a fatal police shooting last year in Danville shows an officer run toward and then fire into the vehicle of a man who had fled police and was steering toward a gap between two squad cars.

In a package of pre-produced video and audio segments released Thursday by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, which polices Danville under contract, a spokesman said the Nov. 3, 2018, shooting “occurred as a result of a suspect trying to run down an officer.” Sheriff David Livingston said earlier this year that the shooting “is about a dangerous and reckless person trying to run down and murder a police officer.”

Videos and other information on the case were obtained in response to a public records request filed by the California Reporting Project, a coalition of news organizations seeking records from law enforcement agencies under a new state transparency law.

Police car dashboard-camera video shows a Danville officer, identified as Deputy Andrew Hall, running toward Laudemer Arboleda’s vehicle, stopping near the right front fender and then stepping backward as he began to fire.

Two police cars had nearly boxed Arboleda in, but there was a small gap between them. Body-camera video shows Hall drawing his gun as he ran toward that opening while Arboleda steered to the right, also toward the space between the patrol cars. Hall can be seen firing several rounds through the right front windshield and continuing to shoot as Arboleda drove by, shattering the front and rear passenger windows.

Civil rights attorney John Burris, who represents Arboleda’s mother in a federal lawsuit against Danville and Hall, said “the claim that he was about to be run over is bogus, given what we can see.”

“The officer did not have to shoot into that car,” Burris said. “The car was going past him at the time, and more importantly, he had a duty to get out of the way.”

Police were responding to a call just after 11 a.m., in which a man whose identity has been withheld reported a “strange individual lurking around” property near Cottage Lane and Laurel Drive, according to audio of the call released by the Sheriff’s Office along with the videos. Officers tried to pull over Arboleda, who stopped twice but then took off again when officers got out of their cars, according to previous statements on the shooting released by the Sheriff’s Office. Police then cornered Arboleda’s car at the intersection of Front Street and Diablo Road, where the shooting occurred.

The police dash-camera video was played at a coroner’s inquest in July, according to an attorney representing Arboleda’s mother, but footage from Hall’s body camera had not been made public before Thursday. The inquest jury found that Arboleda’s death was caused by another person and was not accidental.

Arboleda’s family said two weeks after the shooting that he had struggled with mental illness for about a year, but declined to explain further. He had been detained by Newark police for psychiatric evaluation in April 2018, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The shooting remains under investigation by the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office. Nate Gartrell and Annie Sciacca of the Bay Area News Group contributed to this report.

2019-07-31 Danville: Jury reaches verdict in coroner’s inquest on officer-involved shooting

A Contra Costa County jury determined in a coroner’s inquest Tuesday that a Newark man who was shot and killed by a Danville police officer in November died at the hands of another person, other than by accident. That verdict was one of four specific options jurors had to choose from in the public hearing called to determine the manner of 33-year-old Laudemer Arboleda’s death — the others were accident, suicide or natural causes.

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Police Brutality

Posted on July 12, 2022 by mekorganic

Sources & Organizations

Anti-Police-Terror Project

Berkeley Copwatch

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter Bay Area

Campaign Zero

Care Not Cops – BCW

Cop Watch

Do No Harm Coalition

Love Not Blood

Oscar Grant Committee

People’s Law Office

Showing Up for Racial Justice

Specific Information

42 Shocking Police Brutality Statistics

15 Black Lives Ended in Confrontations With Police. 3 Officers Convicted

10 Worst Cases of Police Brutality in History

30 Cases of Extreme Police Brutality and Blatant Misconduct

16 recent police brutality cases that show how often officers aren’t held accountable

Fight for Victims of Police Brutality – DNH

Know your Rights – BCW

List of cases of police brutality in the United States

Police Brutality Martyrs

Police Reform

Anti Police-Terror Project

The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing. APTP began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee.

Black Lives Matter

The Black Lives Matter Global Network is a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.

Black Lives Matter Bay Area

This is the OFFICIAL public Black Lives Matter Bay Area page, run by Black folk, for us and our allies committed to fighting like hell for Black lives.

Campaign Zero

We can live in a world where the police don’t kill people by limiting police interventions, improving community interactions, and ensuring accountability.

Cop Watch

The Copwatch Database is a permanent, searchable repository of complaints filed against police officers. It was designed and intended both to promote public safety and to ensure that police officers remain accountable for their actions. The archives have not yet been ported to this program, and thus at the present time it is unlikely that you will find detailed information pertaining to any given individual for whom you may be searching. Importation of our existing files into this program will be completed in the near future. In the meantime, previously unfiled complaints are being accepted here.

Love Not Blood

LNBC guiding principle is simple: Those directly impacted should lead the movement for our right to live free from gun violence. We pursue this goal through healing circle, healing conferences, movement building, economic justice, and advocacy. Our commitment to addressing gun violence in all its forms – from community violence to police violence – sets us apart We invite you to explore our website, learn more about our campaigns, and help us fight for a safer America.

LNBC provided Holistice Care that encomasses physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual wellbeing.

Our Vision: The world where no one has the right to take the life of another and be protected/ insulated from the consequences of doing so by a system of structural racism, obfuscation, and propaganda. All of our work at Love Not Blood Campaign is guided by our vision for a racially just society. We dream of a day when families will not have to be traumatically impacted by police violence, community violence, and institutional racism. When all Americans have a right to live in communities free from gun violence. In service of this vision, Love Not Blood Campaign adopted an ambitious purpose: to support and embrace every family impacted by violence and building a political movement to eliminate police violence, community violence, and institutional racism.

We have found that real healing starts when it is those families directly impacted that leads the movement. These families recognize that support to other families is key to their healing process.

Oscar Grant Committee

Oscar Grant Committee – Against Police Brutality and State Repression, is a local East Bay organization which acts to support and defend families of individally brutalized by the police.

People’s Law Office

Attorneys from People’s Law Office in Chicago have been successfully fighting for the civil rights of victims of police brutality, wrongful convictions, false arrest and other government abuses for over 40 years. We believe that the law is an essential tool in fighting for and protecting your civil rights. Our attorneys are among the nation’s top civil rights lawyers, – passionate, skilled, knowledgeable, and experienced. Most importantly, we are unafraid of confronting and exposing injustice and corruption and will relentlessly fight for justice for our clients.

Showing Up for Racial Justice

THE VISION — We envision a society where we struggle together with love, for justice, human dignity, and a sustainable world. THE MISSION — Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. THE WORK — The Bay Area chapter of SURJ meets in Oakland once a month for general meetings.

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Fascism

Posted on July 12, 2022 by mekorganic

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Corporate Fascism is the One Ruling America- MEK

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DC Load – Progressive Caucus Action Fund

Posted on July 11, 2022 by mekorganic

Tracking What is Happening in the United States Congress

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2022-05-08 DC Download

Posted on July 11, 2022 by mekorganic

The House and Senate are back in session this week. Congressional appropriators are knee-deep in the appropriations process as committees continue to consider President Biden’s proposed budget. House lawmakers are readying a historic resolution to allow staff to unionize. Meanwhile, the Senate is teeing up a bill to protect reproductive freedom in response to a leaked SCOTUS decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

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Progressive Playbook

All people deserve to pursue their dreams and get a high-quality higher education. But while certain politicians continue to slash funding for public education, universities are exploding tuition and big banks are profiting off of our pain. Today, far too many people are priced out of college or burdened with a lifetime of debt, preventing them from even getting by, much less getting ahead or saving for their future. We must come together, as we have in the past, to ensure that everyone can go to college and start a business, start a family, buy a home, or simply pay their bills. We need to cancel student debt and make sure everyone can get a good education and live a full life.

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We all benefit when students can pursue their dreams to start new businesses, buy homes, or start families without a lifetime of debt holding them back.
The student debt trap hurts everyone–students, families, and all of our communities.
Debt keeps education out of reach for too many.
Decades ago, we decided that K-12 education was a commonsense right that belongs to every American. In the 21st century, it’s time to extend that right to higher education too.

House

House Floor

The House will vote on 28 suspension bills from the Committees on Financial Services, Oversight & Reform, Science, Space, & Technology, and Judiciary. Suspension bills require a ⅔ majority to pass. For a list of all suspension bills being considered, click here.

The House will also consider the following bills, subject to rules:

H.R. 2499 – Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2022 (Rep. Carbajal): The bill would expand federal workers’ compensation to firefighters who contract certain illnesses as a result of their service. The benefits include medical expenses, disability payments, and survivors benefits if there’s a demonstrable link between their federal employment and their injury or illness.

Press Release (Rep. Carbajal)

H.R. 903 – Rights for the TSA Workforce Act of 2022 (Rep. Thompson (MS)): The bill would modify the workplace rights, protections, and benefits applicable to Transportation Security Administration personnel. Specifically, the bill makes employees subject to the personnel management system applicable to other federal employees, sets rules that protect the pay rates and leave rights of employees, and provides the same collective bargaining rights as other federal employees.

Press Release (Committee on Homeland Security)

H.R. 5129 – Community Services Block Grant Modernization Act of 2022 (Rep. Bonamici): The bill would reauthorize the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program for 10 years at $1 billion annually for the grants from fiscal 2023 through 2027 and such sums as necessary each year from fiscal 2028 through 2032. The bill would also permanently raise income eligibility to 200 percent of the poverty line, as temporarily provided in the CARES Act.

Press Release (Rep. Bonamici)

Additional legislative items are possible including a Resolution Recognizing Congressional Workers’ Right to Organize.

House Committee Highlights

A full list of this week’s hearings and markups can be found here. Notable hearings and markups include:

Tuesday Hearings

FY 2023 Budget Request for the Department of Transportation (Appropriations)

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is testifying

Wednesday Hearings

Standing Up for Workers: Preventing Wage Theft and Recovering Stolen Wages (Education & Labor)

Bringing Prosperity to Left-Behind Communities: Using Targeted Place-based Development to Expand Economic Opportunity (Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth)

Accountability and Justice for War Crimes Committed in Ukraine by the Russian Federation (Foreign Affairs)

Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Appropriations)

Commissioner of CBP Chris Magnus is testifying

FY 2023 Budget Request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Appropriations)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge is testifying

FY 2023 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health (Appropriations)

Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci is testifying

FY 2023 Department of Defense (Appropriations)

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer Michael J. McCord, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley are testifying

Thursday Hearings

Board Member Views on Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization (Transportation & Infrastructure)

Modernizing Hydropower: Licensing and Reforms for a Clean Energy Future (Energy & Commerce)

Examining DHS’s Efforts to Combat the Opioid Epidemic (Homeland Security)

Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the Judiciary (Appropriations)

FY 2023 Budget Request for the Department of Commerce (Appropriations)

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo is testifying

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Senate Floor

S.4132 – Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022 (Sen. Blumenthal): The bill would guarantee a pregnant person’s right to access an abortion—and the right of an abortion provider to deliver these abortion services—free from medically unnecessary restrictions that interfere with a patient’s individual choice or the provider-patient relationship.A similar bill passed the House of Representatives last September by a 218-211 vote.

Press Release (Sen. Blumenthal)

Nominations

The Senate this week has teed up votes on the following nominees:

Ann Claire Phillips to be Administrator of the Maritime Administration
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to be Director of the Office of Science, Department of Energy

Senate Committee Highlights

A full list of this week’s Senate committee hearings, including confirmation hearings, can be found here. Notable committee hearings include:

Tuesday Hearings

A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Appropriations)

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is testifying

Wednesday Hearings

Oversight of the Council on Environmental Quality: A Year in Review (Environment & Public Works)

The Global Food Security and COVID-19 Crises: U.S. Response and Policy Options (Appropriations)

A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Request for the Department of Commerce (Appropriations)

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo is testifying

A Review of the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Requests of the Architect of the Capitol, the Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the Congressional Budget Office (Appropriations)

Architect of the Capitol J. Brett Blanton, Senate Sergeant at Arms Karen Gibson, and Director of the CBO Dr. Phillip Swagel are testifying

Thursday Hearings

A Review of the President’s FY 2023 Funding Request and Budget Justification for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Appropriations)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge is testifying

Issues to Watch

Roe v. Wade

Last week, a leaked draft opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito suggested that the Supreme Court was preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that ruled that the U.S. Constitution protects a pregnant person’s right to choose to have an abortion. If Roe is overturned, nearly 33.6 million individuals of reproductive age could lose access to abortion as states move to restrict or ban abortion entirely. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer quickly announced plans to hold a vote to codify abortion rights into federal law this week. The measure, the Women’s Health Protection Act (S.4132), would prohibit medically unnecessary government restrictions on abortion access prior to fetal viability. The bill would require 60 votes in the evenly divided Senate to avoid a filibuster. The Supreme Court’s final opinion is expected to be published before the end of the Court’s term in June.

The end of Roe v. Wade: Here’s what Democrats need to know about the challenges ahead. (Slate)
The Fight Over Abortion History (The New York Times)
Roe is in jeopardy, and it’s a voting rights issue (Mic)
The dire health consequences of denying abortions, explained (Vox)

Congressional Staff Unionization

Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House of Representatives will vote on a resolution that would recognize congressional workers’ right to unionize. Rep. Andy Levin’s H.Res. 915, Recognizing Congressional Workers’ Right to Organize, has 165 cosponsors and would be the final step under the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to provide House congressional workers legal protection to organize and bargain collectively. Speaker Pelosi also announced that starting on September 1, the minimum annual pay for staffers in the House would be set at $45,000.

Invasion of Ukraine

Over the weekend, First Lady Jill Biden met with Ukraine’s First Lady, Olena Zelenska, in an unannounced visit to Western Ukraine. The pair met at a school that now serves as temporary housing for internally displaced Ukrainians, of which there are now more than 7 million. An estimated 5.5 million people have fled to neighboring countries since the invasion began. First Lady Jill Biden also traveled to Romania and Slovakia and met with humanitarian aid organizations, government officials, and refugee families. The First Lady’s trip makes her the latest high-profile American to visit the region after trips from Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Congressional lawmakers are currently negotiating a supplemental appropriations package that would provide Ukraine with billions more in military, humanitarian, and direct economic assistance. While the timeline for the package is unclear, Speaker Pelosi in an interview over the weekend said she would like to pass a bill before June.

Jill Biden’s Secret Ukraine Trip (The New York Times)
UNHCR Ukraine Emergency (UNHCR)

Key Dates

May: AAPI Heritage Month

May: Jewish American Heritage Month

May: Mental Health Awareness Month

May 2 – May 9: House is out of session

May 9: A Day Without Child Care: A National Day of Action

May 14: House remote voting expires

May 17: International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

May 20 – June 6: House is out of session

May 23: Title 42 officially ends

May 30: Memorial Day

May 30 – June 5: Senate is out of session

May 31 – June 1: Anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre

June: Immigrant Heritage Month

June: LGBTQ+ Pride Month

What We’re Reading

Facebook Provided Warning to FBI Before January 6, GAO Report Reveals (Just Security)

Supreme Court leak strikes fear among environmental lawyers (The Washington Post)

I Listened In on Big Business. It’s Profiting From Inflation, and You’re Paying for It. (The New York Times)

Don’t Overinflate the Pentagon Budget (Defense One)

White House documents detail a looming squeeze on Covid-19 boosters (STAT)

Strong and equitable unemployment insurance systems require broadening the UI tax base (Economic Policy Institute)

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