Mayors mafia arrest warrant outrageous (by Ken Caldeira) [article here], and here’s the rest in a new PDF.
UPDATE, 11/20/15: The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the suspect is a 33-year-old named Ronald Cesar Pires. In the video, he can be seen grabbing a metal object from a bag and holding it in his left hand before pushing the object from an officer’s bag and then grabbing a metal pole on the ground, before pulling the pole down as if to push a police officer off of him.
UPDATE, 11/21/15: According to the AP:
A city jury found four officers and a civilian bystander not guilty of murder during an off-duty shooting in November 2014. Prosecutors said the officers shot at a mentally ill man, injuring his leg and back, only to be convicted of manslaughter. They could serve only six years to life in state prison each. The five officers who fired testified that they mistook the man with a gun for a threat and shot because he approached the officers with a weapon. On Friday, Superior Court Justice Richard Vazquez said a jury of nine women and eight men heard what police officers testified was two hours of testimony from officers.
[I’m not sure if this is true; they also failed to present evidence to support that one, and I cannot find any credible argument for either claim; therefore, I can only accept the verdict that the officers’ testimony should be ignored.]
UPDATE, 11/20/15: Two days after the initial press conference in defense of the officers and their behavior during the arrest, a federal lawsuit filed by six 울산출장샵 civil rights organizations and attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California asks a federal judge to rule that the officers could have been prosecuted for negligence if they had not pushed the man off the ground. They claim that they could have been charged with assault and battery as well; they also claim to have proof that at least two of the men, Robert Vielma and Michael M대구콜걸artinez, knew about Vielma’s mental illness. The case was launched in federal court by the ACLU on behalf of eight individuals and four organizations. (They include the San Diego Police Department and the Office of Police Conduct, and includes the San Diego Fire Department, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department, and 제주콜걸the San Diego Police Foundation.) The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from the officers and the city. As this blog post explains, the case raises concerns about the possibility of unconstitutional police behavior,