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RT @sf_mills: DA Jenkins drops charges against officer who shot Jamaica Hampton - Mission Local
Mission Local
11 months ago
Mission District

DA Jenkins drops charges against officer who shot Jamaica Hampton

On Thursday, DA Brooke Jenkins dismissed all charges against SFPD Officer Christopher Flores, who in 2019 shot burglary suspect Jamaica Hampton during a foot chase in the Mission-after Hampton had already been shot twice by another officer and was crawling on the ground.Jenkins has stated that she cannot "prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Flores did not act in reasonable self-defense."
RT @markasaurus: The stories of corruption at the SF building department all involve few key players: via @MLNow @E…
Mission Local
11 months ago
Mission District

San Francisco's strange and terrible 'Crazy Bernie' saga

That was Bernie Curran's boisterous greeting to his colleagues when he walked into the Department of Building Inspection - every day, for years and years.And it hardly seems he was being facetious.Curran, who picked up the nickname "Crazy Bernie" as the hard-partying surfer dude king of the beach, transferred that persona into his day job as a building inspector and, subsequently, a senior building inspector.
RT @marcatracy: Because it can't be said enough: #FreeEvan
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1 year ago
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Journalist Detained by Russia Was Reporting Stories That Needed to Be Told'

The reporting job in Moscow had everything Evan Gershkovich was looking for, his friends said: experience in a far-flung location with the chance to connect with his Russian roots.Mr. Gershkovich, 31, an American journalist born to Soviet emigres, moved from New York to Russia in late 2017 to take up his first reporting role, a job at The Moscow Times and, his friends and co-workers said, he quickly embraced life in Moscow.
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