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The city of San Francisco will pay $369,000 to settle claims over its police raid on a journalist’s home and office this past May, an action condemned by press advocates as chilling the ability of reporters to get information from anonymous sources.
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The $369,000 settlement is expected to be assigned to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee and, if approved, go to the full board for a vote within the next few weeks.
Five warrants that authorized the searches were deemed illegal and quashed last summer by the same five judges who initially approved them. Unsealed warrant applications show police did not inform judges that Carmody had a valid press pass issued by the San Francisco Police Department.
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“This whole saga sends a chill across journalism because it suggests when police really want to get at something by way of a search warrant, they can do it because the judges won’t be paying close attention,” Snyder told Courthouse News in August.
No disciplinary penalties have been given to this point.
After two weeks of growing outrage, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott apologized Friday for raiding a journalist’s home and office in a bid to unmask a confidential source, admitting the searches were probably illegal and calling for an independent investigation into the episode.
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Scott’s position on Friday was a reversal of his earlier public comments on the raid, which sparked outrage locally and nationally from lawmakers and press-freedom advocates. Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris on Thursday joined in condemning the police action.
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In a news conference Tuesday, Scott said his department had suspected Carmody took part in a criminal conspiracy to steal an internal police report. Carmody said he did not pay for the report or conspire to steal it but simply acquired it as part of his work as a journalist.
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Scott said the officers who executed the search did not consult with the district attorney’s office before obtaining the warrants — a violation of department policy. He’s also pledged to review department policy regarding warrant applications and tactics around police searches.
That's progress... they still ransacked the journalist's home and had him in handcuffs for 6 hours.
Intimidation, by retaliation.
Police chief did that to a buddy of mine, looking to destroy evidence my buddy had on him and his henchmen. After my buddy filed a federal lawsuit on him and 3 other cops along with the city the chief is employed by. They found out in discovery, the chief lied on an affidavit to get a warrant. The chief took all his guns, all his computers and all cell phones and camera equipment, including the home security cameras all around the house. The DA dropped all charges and now, the federal lawsuit has dragged out for 3 years.
Initial reports said the 59-year-old public defender had been traveling when he suddenly had a heart attack.
Carmody remembers his goal as a reporter on the story was to figure out where exactly Adachi died. But soon, salacious details emerged that were difficult to confirm. “There were leaks happening all over the place,” he recalled. He ultimately obtained an incident report that detailed Adachi’s final moments.
... The document, as reported by KGO-TV in San Francisco, detailed that shortly before his death, Adachi had dinner with a woman named “Caterina” who was not his wife, then returned to an apartment he arranged to use for the weekend. The woman called 911 for emergency medical help, and Adachi was taken to the hospital, where he died. Later that night, officers went to the apartment and found “alcohol, cannabis-infused gummies and syringes believed to have been used by the paramedics,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Photos of the apartment circulated online by KTVU and other outlets. The city medical examiner would later conclude Adachi died of an accidental overdose of cocaine and alcohol.
... Amid a public mourning, city officials chastised police for allowing the details of a confidential report to end up in the headlines. The police launched an internal investigation into the report’s leaking, which led to Friday’s raid at Carmody’s home.
Apprently they did not want the truth out that he was cheating on his wife and overdosed on cocaine and alcohol.
How dare they allow the truth to get out...
Exactly! And after it's all said and done they renamed a street, park, building, or tunnel after the loser.
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi died from a mixture of cocaine and alcohol, which caused his already-damaged heart to stop, the city medical examiner has concluded.
The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office released the autopsy report on Adachi’s death late Friday, one month after the 59-year-old public defender collapsed in an apartment on Telegraph Hill and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
“The cause of death is acute mixed drug toxicity with cocaine and ethanol, with hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease as a contributing factor,” Assistant Medical Examiner Ellen Moffatt wrote in the report. “Based on the history, autopsy, microscopic and toxicology finding, the manner of death is accident.”
The city of San Francisco will pay $369,000 to settle claims over its police raid on a journalist’s home and office this past May, an action condemned by press advocates as chilling the ability of reporters to get information from anonymous sources.
...
The $369,000 settlement is expected to be assigned to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee and, if approved, go to the full board for a vote within the next few weeks.
Five warrants that authorized the searches were deemed illegal and quashed last summer by the same five judges who initially approved them. Unsealed warrant applications show police did not inform judges that Carmody had a valid press pass issued by the San Francisco Police Department.
...
“This whole saga sends a chill across journalism because it suggests when police really want to get at something by way of a search warrant, they can do it because the judges won’t be paying close attention,” Snyder told Courthouse News in August.
No disciplinary penalties have been given to this point.
They have insurance for that.... I'd go after qualified immunity of all involved file personal civil suit and file a federal lawsuit.
Who issues press passes? Not the state. What if you a freelancing, who give you a piece of paper saying you are press?
Branzburg v. Hayes 1972 - all members of the public are the press.
Intimidation, by retaliation.
Police chief did that to a buddy of mine, looking to destroy evidence my buddy had on him and his henchmen. After my buddy filed a federal lawsuit on him and 3 other cops along with the city the chief is employed by. They found out in discovery, the chief lied on an affidavit to get a warrant. The chief took all his guns, all his computers and all cell phones and camera equipment, including the home security cameras all around the house. The DA dropped all charges and now, the federal lawsuit has dragged out for 3 years.
I was surprised this was somewhat resolved in less than a year.
The city of San Francisco will pay $369,000 to settle claims over its police raid on a journalist’s home and office this past May, an action condemned by press advocates as chilling the ability of reporters to get information from anonymous sources.
...
The $369,000 settlement is expected to be assigned to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee and, if approved, go to the full board for a vote within the next few weeks.
Five warrants that authorized the searches were deemed illegal and quashed last summer by the same five judges who initially approved them. Unsealed warrant applications show police did not inform judges that Carmody had a valid press pass issued by the San Francisco Police Department.
...
“This whole saga sends a chill across journalism because it suggests when police really want to get at something by way of a search warrant, they can do it because the judges won’t be paying close attention,” Snyder told Courthouse News in August.
No disciplinary penalties have been given to this point.
So the taxpayers fork over $369,000, and no one who actually committed the violation is fired or even reprimanded.
Someone please explain to me how this process makes any sense....
Re Trump... Just my sarcasm in ANOTHER example of liberals doing in real life what they accuse others of doing. In this case, they claim on occasion that Trump threatens the freedom of the press.
What did I do?
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