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His cases included the Zebra killings of the 1970s, a six-month series of random slayings of 14 white people by four Black suspects, who were eventually convicted, and the 1993 mass shooting at 101 California, a skyscaper where eight people and the gunman died. And with Rotea Gilford, the first Black homicide Inspector in the city, he worked the baffling case of the Doodler, a mid-1970s serial killer who stabbed gay men to death after luring them with sketches and has eluded capture to this day. … [Read more...] about Earl Sanders, first Black San Francisco police chief, dies at 83

Corrales, the commander for two of the officers involved in the fight, was accused of jeopardizing the investigation and subverting departmental order by repeatedly defending the three officers to the media while refusing to be interviewed by the department's own investigators on the case. The discipline charges were brought by the Office of Citizen Complaints, a civilian agency that investigates police misconduct. … [Read more...] about S.F. police panel closes books on Fajitagate

“5th Square supports SEPTA workers and their families, who have kept our city moving throughout the pandemic. SEPTA is a lifeline to essential workers managing our region’s public health response, and SEPTA’s frontline workers are essential workers themselves. We stand with everyone calling for a more robust and comprehensive testing, tracing, and vaccination program within SEPTA, and in the city as a whole. SEPTA needs more funding now to do right by its workers and riders, and we call on our federal representatives in Congress to appropriate the outstanding $17 billion in emergency transit funding needed to keep transit running here and across America. We also call on our PA state representatives to get to work on a sustainable transit funding program to replace Act 44 as it scales down funding in 2022. Transit, and our transit workers, are essential, and it’s time for our elected leaders to deliver the aid we need.” … [Read more...] about COVID In Philadelphia: SEPTA Union Says Transit Agency Going In Wrong Direction, Putting Workers’, Riders’ Health At Risk

FILE – In this July 2, 2003, file photo, San Francisco Police Chief Earl Sanders rests on a book of documents and looks out at the Pacific Ocean, below the Cliff House, in San Francisco. Sanders, who became San Francisco’s first Black police chief after working as a homicide detective on such infamous cases as the 1970s Zebra murders, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. He was 83. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) … [Read more...] about Prentice Earl Sanders, SFPD’s First Black Chief, Dies At 83

“His inciting rhetoric was un-American, abhorrent, and absolutely an impeachable offense. It’s time to put country over politics,” Valadao tweeted Wednesday, though he said he would have preferred to first have an investigation into Trump’s actions. … [Read more...] about Pence, in California speech, praises Trump’ foreign policy with no mention of insurrection