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Man Who Armed Black Panthers Was FBI Informant, Records Show | KQED
The man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training – which preceded fatal shootouts with Oakland police in the turbulent 1960s – was an undercover FBI informer, according to a former bureau agent and an FBI report.
One of the Bay Area’s most prominent radical activists of the era, Richard Masato Aoki was known as a fierce militant who touted his street-fighting abilities. He was a member of several radical groups before joining and arming the Panthers, whose members received international notoriety for brandishing weapons during patrols of the Oakland police and a protest at the state Legislature.
Aoki went on to work for 25 years as a teacher, counselor and administrator at the Peralta Community College District, and after his suicide in 2009, he was revered as a fearless radical.
But unbeknownst to his fellow activists, Aoki had served as an FBI intelligence informant, covertly filing reports on a wide range of Bay Area political groups, according to the bureau agent who recruited him.
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That agent, Burney Threadgill Jr., recalled that he approached Aoki in the late 1950s, about the time Aoki was graduating from Berkeley High School. He asked Aoki if he would join left-wing groups and report to the FBI.
“He was my informant. I developed him,” Threadgill said in an interview. “He was one of the best sources we had.”
The former agent said he asked Aoki how he felt about the Soviet Union, and the young man replied that he had no interest in communism.
“I said, ‘Well, why don’t you just go to some of the meetings and tell me who’s there and what they talked about?’ Very pleasant little guy. He always wore dark glasses,” Threadgill recalled.
Aoki’s work for the FBI, which has never been reported, was uncovered and verified during research for the book, “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power.” The book, based on research spanning three decades, will be published tomorrow by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
In a tape-recorded interview for the book in 2007, two years before he committed suicide, Aoki was asked if he had been an FBI informant. Aoki’s first response was a long silence. He then replied, “ ‘Oh,’ is all I can say.”
Later during the same interview, Aoki contended the information wasn’t true.
Asked if this reporter was mistaken that Aoki had been an informant, Aoki said, “I think you are,” but added: “People change. It is complex. Layer upon layer.”
However, the FBI later released records about Aoki in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. A Nov. 16, 1967, intelligence report on the Black Panthers lists Aoki as an “informant” with the code number “T-2.”
An FBI spokesman declined to comment on Aoki, citing litigation seeking additional records about him under the Freedom of Information Act.
Since his death – Aoki shot himself at his Berkeley home after a long illness – his legend has grown. In a 2009 feature-length documentary film, “Aoki,” and a 2012 biography, “Samurai Among Panthers,” he is portrayed as a militant radical leader. Neither mentions that he had worked with the FBI.
Harvey Dong, who was a fellow activist and close friend, said last week that he had never heard that Aoki was an informant.
“It’s definitely something that is shocking to hear,” said Dong, who was the executor of Aoki’s estate. “I mean, that’s a big surprise to me.”
Dong recalled that Aoki tended to “compartmentalize” the different parts of his life. Before he shot himself, Dong said, Aoki had laid out in his apartment two neatly pressed uniforms: One was the black leather jacket, beret and dark trousers of the Black Panthers. The other was his U.S. Army regimental.
In Berkeley in the late 1960s, Aoki wore slicked-back hair, sported sunglasses even at night and spoke with a ghetto patois. His fierce demeanor intimidated even his fellow radicals, several of them have said.
“He had swagger up to the moon,” former Berkeley activist Victoria Wong recalled at his memorial.
From gangs to the military
Aoki was born in San Leandro in 1938, the first of two sons. He was 4 when his family was interned at Topaz, Utah, with thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II.
After the war, Aoki grew up in West Oakland, in an area that had been known as Little Yokohama before becoming a low-income black community. He joined a gang and became a tough street fighter who as an adult would boast, “I was the baddest Oriental come out of West Oakland.”
He shoplifted, burgled homes and stole car parts for “the midnight auto supply business,” he told Berkeley’s KPFA radio in a 2006 interview. Oakland police repeatedly arrested him for “mostly petty-type stuff,” he said in the 2007 interview. Still, he graduated from Herbert Hoover Junior High School as co-valedictorian.
But the internment during World War II had shattered his family, Aoki had said. His father became a gangster and abandoned his family, and his mother won custody of her sons and moved them to Berkeley. Aoki did well academically at Berkeley High School and became president of the Stamp and Coin Club. However, he assaulted another student in the hallway and, as he recalled, “beat him half to death.”
Three days after graduating from high school in January 1957, Aoki reported for duty at Fort Ord, near Monterey. He had enlisted in the U.S. Army the prior year, at age 17. He acknowledged in the 2007 interview that he had “cut a deal” in which military authorities arranged for his criminal record to be sealed.
Aoki said he had hoped to become the army’s first Asian American general, but he served only about a year on active duty and seven more in the reserves before being honorably discharged as a sergeant.
Although he saw no combat, he became a firearms expert. “I got to play with all the toys I wanted to play with when I was growing up,” he told KPFA. “Pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers.”
Being in the reserves left Aoki a lot of free time, and he became deeply involved in left-wing political organizations at the behest of the FBI, retired FBI agent Threadgill said during a series of interviews before his death in 2005.
“The activities that he got involved in was because of us using him as an informant,” he said.
Threadgill recalled that he first approached Aoki after a bureau wiretap on the home phone of Saul and Billie Wachter, local members of the Communist Party, picked up Aoki talking to fellow Berkeley High classmate Doug Wachter.
At first, Aoki gathered information about the Communist Party, Threadgill said. But Aoki soon focused on the Socialist Workers Party and its youth affiliate, the Young Socialist Alliance, also targets of an intensive FBI domestic security investigation.
By spring 1962, Aoki had been elected to the Berkeley Young Socialist Alliance’s executive council, FBI records show. That December, he became a member of the Oakland-Berkeley branch of the Socialist Workers Party, where he served as the representative to Bay Area civil rights groups. He also was on the steering committee of the Committee to Uphold the Right to Travel.
In 1965, Aoki joined the Vietnam Day Committee, an influential anti-war group based in Berkeley, and worked on its international committee as liaison to foreign anti-war activists.
All along, Aoki met regularly with his FBI handler. Aoki also filed reports by phone, Threadgill said.
“I’d call him and say, ‘When do you want to get together?’ ” Threadgill recalled. “I’d say, ‘I’ll meet you on the street corner at so-and-so and so on.’ I would park a couple of blocks away and get out and go and sit down and talk to him.”
Arming the Black Panthers
Threadgill worked with Aoki through mid-1965, when he moved to another FBI office and turned Aoki over to a fellow agent. Aoki was well positioned to inform on a wide range of political activists.
Aoki attended Merritt College in Oakland, where he met Huey Newton, a pre-law student, and Bobby Seale, an engineering student, who were in a political group called the Soul Students Advisory Council.
In fall 1966, Aoki transferred to UC Berkeley as a junior in sociology. That October, Seale and Newton took a draft of their 10-point program for what would become the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense to Aoki’s Berkeley apartment and discussed it over drinks. The platform called for improved housing, education, full employment, the release of incarcerated black men, a halt to “the robbery by the capitalists of our black community” and an “immediate end to police brutality.”
Soon after, Aoki gave the Panthers some of their first guns. As Seale recalled in his memoir, “Seize the Time:”
“Late in November 1966, we went to a Third World brother we knew, a Japanese radical cat. He had guns … .357 Magnums, 22’s, 9mm’s, what have you. … We told him that if he was a real revolutionary he better go on and give them up to us because we needed them now to begin educating the people to wage a revolutionary struggle. So he gave us an M-1 and a 9mm.”
In early 1967, Aoki joined the Black Panther Party and gave them more guns, Seale wrote. Aoki also gave Panther recruits weapons training, he said in the 2007 interview.
“I had a little collection, and Bobby and Huey knew about it, and so when the party was formed, I decided to turn it over to the group,” Aoki said in the interview. “And so when you see the guys out there marching and everything, I’m somewhat responsible for the military slant to the organization’s public image.”
In early 1967, the Panthers displayed guns during their “community patrols” of Oakland police and also that May 2, when they visited the state Legislature to protest a bill.
Although carrying weapons was legal at the time, there is little doubt their presence contributed to fatal confrontations between the Panthers and the police.
On Oct. 28, 1967, Newton was in a shootout that wounded Oakland Officer Herbert Heanes and killed Officer John Frey. On April 6, 1968, Eldridge Cleaver and five other Panthers were involved in a firefight with Oakland police. Cleaver and two officers were wounded, and Panther Bobby Hutton was killed.
During the period Aoki was arming the Panthers, he also was informing for the FBI. The FBI report that lists him as informant T-2 says that in May 1967, he reported on the Panthers.
None of the released FBI reports mention that Aoki gave guns to the Panthers.
FBI’s reliance on informants
M. Wesley Swearingen, a retired FBI agent who has criticized unlawful bureau surveillance activities under the late Director J. Edgar Hoover, reviewed some of those records. He concluded in a sworn declaration – filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records on Aoki – that Aoki had been an informant.
Swearingen served in the FBI from 1951 to 1977, and worked on a squad that investigated the Panthers.
“Someone like Aoki is perfect to be in a Black Panther Party, because I understand he is Japanese,” he said. “Hey, nobody is going to guess – he’s in the Black Panther Party; nobody is going to guess that he might be an informant.”
Swearingen also said the FBI certainly must have additional records concerning Aoki, including special informant files.
“Aoki wouldn't even have to be a member of the party. If he just knew Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, if he went out to lunch with them every day, they would have a main file,” he said. “But to say they don’t have a main file is ludicrous.”
In the 1990s, testimony from Swearingen helped to vacate the murder conviction of Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, a Black Panther leader in Los Angeles. Evidence showed that the FBI and Los Angeles Police Department had failed to disclose that a key witness against Pratt was a longtime FBI informant named Julius C. Butler. Pratt later won a civil suit for wrongful imprisonment, with the City of Los Angles paying Pratt $2.75 million and the FBI paying him $1.75 million.
During the late ’60s and early ’70s, the FBI sought to disrupt and “neutralize” the Black Panthers under COINTELPRO, the bureau’s secret counterintelligence program to stifle dissent, according to reports by the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.
As part of COINTELPRO, the committee found, the FBI used informants to gather intelligence leading to the weapons arrests of Panthers in Chicago, Detroit, San Diego and Washington. By the end of 1969, at least 28 Panthers had been killed in gunfights with police and many more arrested on weapons charges, according to news accounts.
Hoover declared in late 1968 that the Panthers, who by now had chapters across the nation, posed “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” He cited their radical philosophy and armed confrontations with police.
Although Aoki later would boast of his role with the Panthers, he was secretive about his relations with them at the time, explaining in the 2007 interview that he feared being expelled from UC Berkeley if his activities were known.
In early 1969, Aoki emerged as a leader of the Third World Liberation Front strike at UC Berkeley, which demanded more ethnic studies courses. He advocated violent tactics, according to interviews with him and Manuel Delgado, another strike leader.
Scores of students and police were injured during the three-month confrontation, which became the campus’s most violent strike to date. Gov. Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency and sent the National Guard to quell the violence.
At a memorial service for Aoki at Wheeler Hall in May 2009, Seale, of the Black Panthers, and other activists hailed Aoki as a “fearless leader and servant of the people.” In a phone conversation last week, Seale expressed surprise at hearing that Aoki was an informant and declined to comment further.
Seth Rosenfeld was an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle and has won the George Polk Award and other journalism honors. He can be reached at seth@sethrosenfeld.com. This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick.
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The group said it wants the school to divest from companies tied to Israel’s military assault on the Gaza Strip, among other demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said they found damage inside the building, and the sandstone exterior of the building and others around it in the main quad area were graffitied with messages including “kill cops,” “death to Israel” and “free Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued Friday afternoon, Kaushikee Nayudu, the editor in chief and president of \u003cem>The Stanford Daily, \u003c/em>said one of the paper’s reporters, Dilan Gohill, was present to cover the demonstration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He identified himself as a member of the press multiple times. He continued to stress this information — and showed his press pass to officers he engaged with — at the (Stanford University Department of Public Safety) station and Santa Clara County Jail,” Nayudu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that officers he interacted with “acknowledged and noted his role as a reporter,” but he was nevertheless arrested and booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail on a felony charge of burglary with intent to commit a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did not participate in the construction of barricades or vandalism, and explicitly told protesters he would not assist since he was present as reporter,” Nayudu said. “We hope the university will lift his suspension and urge the DA’s office to drop the charges against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nayudu and other editors of the paper, in an \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2024/06/05/letter-from-the-editors-on-todays-arrests-at-the-presidents-office/\">opinion piece\u003c/a> published Wednesday, said arresting Gohill was a violation of his First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights. “We are appalled at this threat to the freedom of the press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Building 10 at Stanford University, where pro-Palestinian protesters broke into the university president’s office and occupied it before being arrested on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Editors of the paper also said a second Daily staffer, an editor, was present in the president’s office to participate in the protest, and was not there in a journalistic capacity. They noted she has not been involved in coverage related to the Israel-Gaza war “due to an established conflict of interest on this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nayudu said Friday the editor who participated in the protest has since stepped down from her position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 13 people arrested were charged with the same crime, according to an arrest log from the university, and were held on $20,000 bail for much of Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, Brooks Jarosz, said Friday all of those arrested were released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those arrested were released without having to pay bail in exchange for agreeing to conditions of their release, while others chose to post the bail and not agree to the conditions, Jarosz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear when those arrested will be arraigned in court. A spokesperson for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, Sean Webby, said the office hadn’t yet received the cases from the Stanford Department of Public Safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/this-morning-s-occupation-of-building-10\">previous statement\u003c/a>, Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez said all students who were inside the office and arrested would be suspended, and any of them who are seniors would not be allowed to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These actions are necessary based on the public safety threat posed to our campus community,” the statement read. “The situation on campus has now crossed the line from peaceful protest to actions that threaten the safety of our community,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A school spokesperson, Dee Mostofi, did not respond to questions about whether the school intends to continue to press charges against Gohill, and maintain his suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11989050 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Following the arrests at the president’s office, the university on Wednesday also dismantled a pro-Palestinian protest encampment that had been set up weeks earlier on a central plaza. In their statement, Saller and Martinez said the encampment violated multiple university policies, and again cited an interest in public safety as reason to clear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Zahr, an assistant professor at Stanford and a member of the group Stanford Faculty for Justice in Palestine, said she feels the university leadership’s characterization of the protests and occupation have been overblown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how anybody’s endangered,” Zahr said. “I mean yes, there might have been vandalism but I’m sorry people are getting killed” in the Israel-Gaza war, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cast doubt on whether the students behind the occupation were also responsible for graffiti on campus building exteriors, and said $20,000 bail for those arrested is excessive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahr said she wrote a note to President Saller on Wednesday asking for “due process,” and for him to “clearly find out who was involved in doing what,” before he decided on punishments for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, she said she’s proud of students speaking out and taking action on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They invigorated an apathetic population, including me,” she said. “I’m just praying that this will be over soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Editors of The Stanford Daily student newspaper say the university leadership should drop felony charges and claw back a suspension against a reporter who was arrested while covering a protest.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717809677,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":958},"headData":{"title":"Stanford Student Newspaper Editors Call for Charges Against Reporter to Be Dropped | KQED","description":"Editors of The Stanford Daily student newspaper say the university leadership should drop felony charges and claw back a suspension against a reporter who was arrested while covering a protest.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Stanford Student Newspaper Editors Call for Charges Against Reporter to Be Dropped","datePublished":"2024-06-07T18:00:35-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-07T18:21:17-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11989520","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11989520/stanford-student-newspaper-editors-call-for-charges-against-reporter-to-be-dropped","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The editor of Stanford University’s student newspaper is calling on school leadership to drop felony charges and rescind a suspension against a reporter who was arrested while covering a Pro-Palestinian protest this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early morning hours Wednesday, a group of Stanford students and activists entered and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989050/pro-palestinian-stanford-protesters-detained-after-occupying-presidents-office\">barricaded themselves\u003c/a> inside the office of Stanford’s president. The group said it wants the school to divest from companies tied to Israel’s military assault on the Gaza Strip, among other demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said they found damage inside the building, and the sandstone exterior of the building and others around it in the main quad area were graffitied with messages including “kill cops,” “death to Israel” and “free Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued Friday afternoon, Kaushikee Nayudu, the editor in chief and president of \u003cem>The Stanford Daily, \u003c/em>said one of the paper’s reporters, Dilan Gohill, was present to cover the demonstration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He identified himself as a member of the press multiple times. He continued to stress this information — and showed his press pass to officers he engaged with — at the (Stanford University Department of Public Safety) station and Santa Clara County Jail,” Nayudu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that officers he interacted with “acknowledged and noted his role as a reporter,” but he was nevertheless arrested and booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail on a felony charge of burglary with intent to commit a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did not participate in the construction of barricades or vandalism, and explicitly told protesters he would not assist since he was present as reporter,” Nayudu said. “We hope the university will lift his suspension and urge the DA’s office to drop the charges against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nayudu and other editors of the paper, in an \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2024/06/05/letter-from-the-editors-on-todays-arrests-at-the-presidents-office/\">opinion piece\u003c/a> published Wednesday, said arresting Gohill was a violation of his First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights. “We are appalled at this threat to the freedom of the press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Building 10 at Stanford University, where pro-Palestinian protesters broke into the university president’s office and occupied it before being arrested on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Editors of the paper also said a second Daily staffer, an editor, was present in the president’s office to participate in the protest, and was not there in a journalistic capacity. They noted she has not been involved in coverage related to the Israel-Gaza war “due to an established conflict of interest on this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nayudu said Friday the editor who participated in the protest has since stepped down from her position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 13 people arrested were charged with the same crime, according to an arrest log from the university, and were held on $20,000 bail for much of Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, Brooks Jarosz, said Friday all of those arrested were released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those arrested were released without having to pay bail in exchange for agreeing to conditions of their release, while others chose to post the bail and not agree to the conditions, Jarosz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear when those arrested will be arraigned in court. A spokesperson for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, Sean Webby, said the office hadn’t yet received the cases from the Stanford Department of Public Safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/this-morning-s-occupation-of-building-10\">previous statement\u003c/a>, Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez said all students who were inside the office and arrested would be suspended, and any of them who are seniors would not be allowed to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These actions are necessary based on the public safety threat posed to our campus community,” the statement read. “The situation on campus has now crossed the line from peaceful protest to actions that threaten the safety of our community,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A school spokesperson, Dee Mostofi, did not respond to questions about whether the school intends to continue to press charges against Gohill, and maintain his suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11989050","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Following the arrests at the president’s office, the university on Wednesday also dismantled a pro-Palestinian protest encampment that had been set up weeks earlier on a central plaza. In their statement, Saller and Martinez said the encampment violated multiple university policies, and again cited an interest in public safety as reason to clear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Zahr, an assistant professor at Stanford and a member of the group Stanford Faculty for Justice in Palestine, said she feels the university leadership’s characterization of the protests and occupation have been overblown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how anybody’s endangered,” Zahr said. “I mean yes, there might have been vandalism but I’m sorry people are getting killed” in the Israel-Gaza war, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cast doubt on whether the students behind the occupation were also responsible for graffiti on campus building exteriors, and said $20,000 bail for those arrested is excessive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahr said she wrote a note to President Saller on Wednesday asking for “due process,” and for him to “clearly find out who was involved in doing what,” before he decided on punishments for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, she said she’s proud of students speaking out and taking action on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They invigorated an apathetic population, including me,” she said. “I’m just praying that this will be over soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11989520/stanford-student-newspaper-editors-call-for-charges-against-reporter-to-be-dropped","authors":["11906"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_32906","news_33647","news_178","news_22646"],"featImg":"news_11989556","label":"news"},"news_11989279":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11989279","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11989279","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-judge-tosses-3-state-charges-against-man-who-attacked-nancy-pelosis-husband","title":"SF Judge Tosses 3 State Charges Against Man Who Attacked Nancy Pelosi's Husband","publishDate":1717716646,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF Judge Tosses 3 State Charges Against Man Who Attacked Nancy Pelosi’s Husband | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Thursday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge presiding over the state trial of David DePape, the man who violently attacked former House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in 2022, dismissed multiple charges Thursday, dramatically upending the trial schedule and altering the course of a case that was expected to be a routine repeat of DePape’s federal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after 11 a.m., Judge Harry Dorfman granted some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987752/depape-faces-new-state-charges-defense-argues-double-jeopardy\">defense’s double-jeopardy arguments\u003c/a> and tossed out charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse on the grounds that DePape has already been convicted for those acts in federal court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is all one event,” Dorfman said at a San Francisco hearing Thursday. “A sober look at the evidence is – same place, same time, same act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial is now on hold for at least a week while attorneys await a response from the California Court of Appeal on each party’s request to challenge the ruling. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s defense attorneys were expected to begin presenting their case Friday after the prosecution rested Tuesday. But as soon as Dorfman announced his ruling Thursday, assistant district attorney Sean Connolly requested a stay of the proceedings while attorneys requested relief from the higher court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys now say they no longer plan to call at least one witness, Dr. Laeeq Evered, a mental health expert. Attorneys have not yet decided whether DePape will testify, assistant public defender Adam Lipson told the judge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors are expected back in court June 14. Depending on how the state appellate court responds, the trial could be delayed even further. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorfman denied the defense’s request to dismiss two additional counts – first degree burglary and aggravated kidnapping – along with the rest of the charges. The defense plans to appeal the judge’s decision on the aggravated kidnapping charge, which carries a life sentence without the possibility of parole. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape, 44, still faces other state charges, including false imprisonment of an elder, threatening the family member of a public official and preventing or dissuading a witness by force or threat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape was convicted in federal court in November of attempting to kidnap former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulting her husband during a late-night home-invasion at the couple’s San Francisco home on Oct. 22, 2022. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='david-depape']Police body cam footage captured the graphic scene of DePape swinging a hammer at Paul Pelosi’s head right in front of San Francisco police officers who were responding to a 911 call Pelosi had managed to make from his bathroom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987892/paul-pelosis-attacker-apologizes-at-resentencing-but-prison-term-is-unchanged\">sentenced to 30 years in federal prison\u003c/a> at a U.S. District Court hearing on May 28. The next day, his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988131/prosecutors-defense-deliver-opening-statements-in-state-trial-of-man-who-attacked-paul-pelosi\">state trial in San Francisco Superior Court\u003c/a> began. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys moved to dismiss multiple charges last month, arguing that his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967595/david-depape-found-guilty-in-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack\">conviction in federal court\u003c/a> precludes prosecution for certain acts in state court because of California protections against double jeopardy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their May 21 motion, defense attorneys cite two sections of the California penal code, one that makes a prior conviction a defense to a new charge stemming from the same acts and another that bars prosecution after a conviction in another court system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because DePape was already convicted of assault and attempted kidnapping in federal court, California law bars his prosecution in state court for the same acts, they argued. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DePape’s federal convictions were based on precisely the same conduct that is charged in Counts I to IV: breaking into the Speaker’s home and striking Mr. Pelosi on the head with a hammer,” attorneys wrote. “Because DePape has now been convicted for those acts,” those sections of the law, “bar a retrial.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went on: “DePape’s assault on Mr Pelosi with a hammer was an act of violence that shocked our country. So was his forced entry into the Pelosis’ home. The United States has tried, convicted and severely punished DePape for those crimes. California law does not permit a second trial for the same conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The judge dismissed charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse on the grounds that David DePape was convicted for those acts in federal court.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717776339,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":710},"headData":{"title":"SF Judge Tosses 3 State Charges Against Man Who Attacked Nancy Pelosi's Husband | KQED","description":"The judge dismissed charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse on the grounds that David DePape was convicted for those acts in federal court.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Judge Tosses 3 State Charges Against Man Who Attacked Nancy Pelosi's Husband","datePublished":"2024-06-06T16:30:46-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-07T09:05:39-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11989279","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11989279/sf-judge-tosses-3-state-charges-against-man-who-attacked-nancy-pelosis-husband","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Thursday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge presiding over the state trial of David DePape, the man who violently attacked former House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in 2022, dismissed multiple charges Thursday, dramatically upending the trial schedule and altering the course of a case that was expected to be a routine repeat of DePape’s federal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after 11 a.m., Judge Harry Dorfman granted some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987752/depape-faces-new-state-charges-defense-argues-double-jeopardy\">defense’s double-jeopardy arguments\u003c/a> and tossed out charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse on the grounds that DePape has already been convicted for those acts in federal court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is all one event,” Dorfman said at a San Francisco hearing Thursday. “A sober look at the evidence is – same place, same time, same act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial is now on hold for at least a week while attorneys await a response from the California Court of Appeal on each party’s request to challenge the ruling. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s defense attorneys were expected to begin presenting their case Friday after the prosecution rested Tuesday. But as soon as Dorfman announced his ruling Thursday, assistant district attorney Sean Connolly requested a stay of the proceedings while attorneys requested relief from the higher court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys now say they no longer plan to call at least one witness, Dr. Laeeq Evered, a mental health expert. Attorneys have not yet decided whether DePape will testify, assistant public defender Adam Lipson told the judge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors are expected back in court June 14. Depending on how the state appellate court responds, the trial could be delayed even further. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorfman denied the defense’s request to dismiss two additional counts – first degree burglary and aggravated kidnapping – along with the rest of the charges. The defense plans to appeal the judge’s decision on the aggravated kidnapping charge, which carries a life sentence without the possibility of parole. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape, 44, still faces other state charges, including false imprisonment of an elder, threatening the family member of a public official and preventing or dissuading a witness by force or threat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape was convicted in federal court in November of attempting to kidnap former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulting her husband during a late-night home-invasion at the couple’s San Francisco home on Oct. 22, 2022. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"david-depape"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Police body cam footage captured the graphic scene of DePape swinging a hammer at Paul Pelosi’s head right in front of San Francisco police officers who were responding to a 911 call Pelosi had managed to make from his bathroom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987892/paul-pelosis-attacker-apologizes-at-resentencing-but-prison-term-is-unchanged\">sentenced to 30 years in federal prison\u003c/a> at a U.S. District Court hearing on May 28. The next day, his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988131/prosecutors-defense-deliver-opening-statements-in-state-trial-of-man-who-attacked-paul-pelosi\">state trial in San Francisco Superior Court\u003c/a> began. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape’s attorneys moved to dismiss multiple charges last month, arguing that his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967595/david-depape-found-guilty-in-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack\">conviction in federal court\u003c/a> precludes prosecution for certain acts in state court because of California protections against double jeopardy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their May 21 motion, defense attorneys cite two sections of the California penal code, one that makes a prior conviction a defense to a new charge stemming from the same acts and another that bars prosecution after a conviction in another court system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because DePape was already convicted of assault and attempted kidnapping in federal court, California law bars his prosecution in state court for the same acts, they argued. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DePape’s federal convictions were based on precisely the same conduct that is charged in Counts I to IV: breaking into the Speaker’s home and striking Mr. Pelosi on the head with a hammer,” attorneys wrote. “Because DePape has now been convicted for those acts,” those sections of the law, “bar a retrial.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went on: “DePape’s assault on Mr Pelosi with a hammer was an act of violence that shocked our country. So was his forced entry into the Pelosis’ home. The United States has tried, convicted and severely punished DePape for those crimes. California law does not permit a second trial for the same conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11989279/sf-judge-tosses-3-state-charges-against-man-who-attacked-nancy-pelosis-husband","authors":["11490"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_17725","news_31923","news_27626","news_177","news_31916","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11989287","label":"news"},"news_11989196":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11989196","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11989196","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"heavy-classical-how-composer-jens-ibsen-is-shaking-up-the-classical-music-world","title":"Metal Symphony: How Bay Area Composer Jens Ibsen Is Shaking up the Classical Music World","publishDate":1717758047,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Metal Symphony: How Bay Area Composer Jens Ibsen Is Shaking up the Classical Music World | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When Bay Area composer Jens Ibsen made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony last year, he wanted to do something different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for his symphony piece, titled “Drowned in Light,” he took inspiration from one of his less traditional passions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted the piece to sound really metal, and I feel like I got to do that,” Ibsen, 28, says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece melds thrilling electric guitar solos and a pounding drum kit with the cinematic strings of the symphony. Ibsen’s goal was to bring together the intellectual stimulation of classical music with the physically stimulating aspects of rock. And his distinctive approach has lately garnered much attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975829\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A choir group sits in a semicircle, each in front of a music stand, facing a conductor\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Jens Ibsen (with face mask) works with the professional San Francisco choir Volti during a practice session in the basement of the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco on Feb. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Drowned in Light,” which premiered last November, was the result of a $15,000 commission from the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since then, the commissions have kept coming. Ibsen recently premiered a work with the professional San Francisco choir \u003ca href=\"http://voltisf.org/\">Volti\u003c/a> in late February, and he’s currently working on a children’s opera that will debut at the Glimmerglass Festival in New York in August. This blending of styles comes from his almost life-long study of music, but it’s also an inherent part of his being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibsen was born in Ghana to a Ghanaian mother and an American father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Music is kind of the reason why I’m around,” he says. His father developed a passion for the drums and traveled to Ghana to learn more from the source. “To make an extremely long story short, he met my mother and came back with a whole new family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibsen’s parents moved to the Bay Area when he and his twin sister were 10 months old. For the most part, the soundtrack to their early life was not in English. Rather, they absorbed African music, like Ghanaian highlife and Brazilian Samba and Candomble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975831\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits in front of a laptop that has musical notation on the screen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Jens Ibsen works with the professional San Francisco choir Volti on one of his original compositions during a practice session in the basement of the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco on Feb. 7. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ibsen’s classical career began in elementary school at the suggestion of his music teacher, who sent him home one day with a flier to audition for the Grammy-award-winning \u003ca href=\"https://ragazzi.org/\">Ragazzi Boys Chorus \u003c/a>in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Well, if I become a singer, then I’ll be cool. If I’m cool, that means girls will like me,” Ibsen says with a laugh. “And that’s all the motivation I needed as an 8-year-old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid who had struggled to fit in socially, Ibsen soon found that the choir was one of the few outlets where he could be himself and feel good about it. It also helped that he was very good at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989226\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 503px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11989226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1020x1359.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1153x1536.jpg 1153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jens Ibsen plays piano at his childhood home in Pacifica on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Kariisa/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several years later, at the age of 11, he got the opportunity to audition for the world-renowned Vienna Boys Choir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think I’ve ever been more nervous in my life,” he remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t have any reason to be. Ibsen’s training with Ragazzi, not to mention his natural talent, prepared him well, and he was immediately offered a spot in the choir, becoming its first African-born member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He packed up and moved to a palace in Austria, where the boys in the choir lived, went to school, and sang. Ibsen was excited and nervous about this big change in life, but he didn’t anticipate what he would encounter when he arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never experienced more overt racism than I did when I lived in Austria,” he says. “Everything I did was seen as alien and foreign. I was hazed the entire time I was there. So that was really, really difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two and a half years with the choir, Ibsen came back to the Bay Area to start school at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/ruth-asawa-san-francisco-school-arts\">Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts\u003c/a>. Having heard a student was coming from a famous boys choir, incoming students started friending him on Facebook over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in Austria, he says, they were appreciative of what Ibsen would contribute to the school. It was a welcome change from the isolation he experienced in Vienna, and it was there that he first started composing music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first piece was for piano, one inspired by the Japanese video game Kingdom Hearts and its piano-forward score by composer Yoko Shimomura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/QlQsZqXgD90?si=jelFTBup0pY6fhLu\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibsen’s path to metal music came by way of Japan as well. He grew up watching anime, and the ending theme of one of his favorite shows, Hunter x Hunter, was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyIoNt2m1Gw\">song by the Japanese power metal band Galneryus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing that, along with music from other Japanese metal bands like Dir En Grey, was transformative, Ibsen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Discovering them was sort of a moment like, ‘Oh, music can be like this,’ ” he says. “It also made me experiment as a vocalist more with my range because you have these metal guys singing notes that you never hear in opera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/o8-iem35c-E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to writing music, Ibsen says he doesn’t wait for inspiration to strike. He likens the process to a daily routine, like remembering to turn off the stove at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very disciplined about writing. I sit down, and I set a chunk of time, and I just do it, and I revise it later until it’s perfect,” he says. “If you have something down, you can decide how you feel. But if you have nothing, you’ve got nothing, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibsen has composed for ensembles as grand as a symphony and as stripped down as piano and voice. But these days, he says, almost every idea starts the same way — on his phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll often make voice notes or text notes or both. If you even read one of these notes, you’re not going to have any idea what it’s going to sound like,” he says. “It’s just enough for me to be able to recall what I’ve stored internally. So it’s more like I’m creating these verbal triggers for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black man with a black face mask speaks to an older white man, with a stage curtain behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Jens Ibsen speaks with conductor Robert Geary after a practice session with the professional San Francisco choir Volti at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco on Feb. 7. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From there, he’ll transfer the ideas into notation software on his laptop where he’ll finesse the compositions until they are complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The material has to sort of live in my head for a while. And then the material tells me where it’s supposed to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Jens won the second annual\u003ca href=\"https://sfcm.edu/discover/initiatives/emerging-black-composers-project\"> Emerging Black Composers\u003c/a> award. The prize was the commission that ended up becoming “Drowned In Light.” He says that after experiencing such blatant racism in the Vienna Boys Choir, receiving this distinguished award years later, based in part on his race, elicited a complicated set of emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975828\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A document titled 'How god comes to the soul,' sits on someone's lap,\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A composition by composer Jens Ibsen, ‘How god comes to the soul,’ sits on the lap of an attendee during a practice session in the basement of the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco on Feb. 7. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For a while, I felt cynical because it felt like I’ve been good this whole time. Why now?” he says. “But I look back on the cynicism and I have a little more empathy for myself because I can see that these people like me because they believe in my art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibsen says he hopes his experience can inspire musical institutions to continue to support the work of other artists pushing the boundaries of music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to keep this energy for composers of all kinds of marginalized backgrounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to correct a mis-identification of the professional San Francisco choir Volti.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ibsen is pushing the limits of classical music by infusing his compositions with prog rock and metal — a bold, nontraditional approach that is garnering the attention of major institutions, like the San Francisco Symphony. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717794199,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1460},"headData":{"title":"Metal Symphony: How Bay Area Composer Jens Ibsen Is Shaking up the Classical Music World | KQED","description":"Ibsen is pushing the limits of classical music by infusing his compositions with prog rock and metal — a bold, nontraditional approach that is garnering the attention of major institutions, like the San Francisco Symphony. 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Ibsen’s goal was to bring together the intellectual stimulation of classical music with the physically stimulating aspects of rock. And his distinctive approach has lately garnered much attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975829\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A choir group sits in a semicircle, each in front of a music stand, facing a conductor\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-18-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Jens Ibsen (with face mask) works with the professional San Francisco choir Volti during a practice session in the basement of the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco on Feb. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Drowned in Light,” which premiered last November, was the result of a $15,000 commission from the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since then, the commissions have kept coming. Ibsen recently premiered a work with the professional San Francisco choir \u003ca href=\"http://voltisf.org/\">Volti\u003c/a> in late February, and he’s currently working on a children’s opera that will debut at the Glimmerglass Festival in New York in August. This blending of styles comes from his almost life-long study of music, but it’s also an inherent part of his being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibsen was born in Ghana to a Ghanaian mother and an American father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Music is kind of the reason why I’m around,” he says. His father developed a passion for the drums and traveled to Ghana to learn more from the source. “To make an extremely long story short, he met my mother and came back with a whole new family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibsen’s parents moved to the Bay Area when he and his twin sister were 10 months old. For the most part, the soundtrack to their early life was not in English. Rather, they absorbed African music, like Ghanaian highlife and Brazilian Samba and Candomble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975831\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits in front of a laptop that has musical notation on the screen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Jens Ibsen works with the professional San Francisco choir Volti on one of his original compositions during a practice session in the basement of the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco on Feb. 7. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ibsen’s classical career began in elementary school at the suggestion of his music teacher, who sent him home one day with a flier to audition for the Grammy-award-winning \u003ca href=\"https://ragazzi.org/\">Ragazzi Boys Chorus \u003c/a>in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Well, if I become a singer, then I’ll be cool. If I’m cool, that means girls will like me,” Ibsen says with a laugh. “And that’s all the motivation I needed as an 8-year-old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid who had struggled to fit in socially, Ibsen soon found that the choir was one of the few outlets where he could be himself and feel good about it. It also helped that he was very good at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989226\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 503px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11989226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1020x1359.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/image1-1153x1536.jpg 1153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jens Ibsen plays piano at his childhood home in Pacifica on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Kariisa/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several years later, at the age of 11, he got the opportunity to audition for the world-renowned Vienna Boys Choir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think I’ve ever been more nervous in my life,” he remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t have any reason to be. Ibsen’s training with Ragazzi, not to mention his natural talent, prepared him well, and he was immediately offered a spot in the choir, becoming its first African-born member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He packed up and moved to a palace in Austria, where the boys in the choir lived, went to school, and sang. Ibsen was excited and nervous about this big change in life, but he didn’t anticipate what he would encounter when he arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never experienced more overt racism than I did when I lived in Austria,” he says. “Everything I did was seen as alien and foreign. I was hazed the entire time I was there. So that was really, really difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two and a half years with the choir, Ibsen came back to the Bay Area to start school at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/ruth-asawa-san-francisco-school-arts\">Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts\u003c/a>. Having heard a student was coming from a famous boys choir, incoming students started friending him on Facebook over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in Austria, he says, they were appreciative of what Ibsen would contribute to the school. It was a welcome change from the isolation he experienced in Vienna, and it was there that he first started composing music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first piece was for piano, one inspired by the Japanese video game Kingdom Hearts and its piano-forward score by composer Yoko Shimomura.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QlQsZqXgD90'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QlQsZqXgD90'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Ibsen’s path to metal music came by way of Japan as well. He grew up watching anime, and the ending theme of one of his favorite shows, Hunter x Hunter, was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyIoNt2m1Gw\">song by the Japanese power metal band Galneryus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing that, along with music from other Japanese metal bands like Dir En Grey, was transformative, Ibsen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Discovering them was sort of a moment like, ‘Oh, music can be like this,’ ” he says. “It also made me experiment as a vocalist more with my range because you have these metal guys singing notes that you never hear in opera.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/o8-iem35c-E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/o8-iem35c-E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When it comes to writing music, Ibsen says he doesn’t wait for inspiration to strike. He likens the process to a daily routine, like remembering to turn off the stove at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very disciplined about writing. I sit down, and I set a chunk of time, and I just do it, and I revise it later until it’s perfect,” he says. “If you have something down, you can decide how you feel. But if you have nothing, you’ve got nothing, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibsen has composed for ensembles as grand as a symphony and as stripped down as piano and voice. But these days, he says, almost every idea starts the same way — on his phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll often make voice notes or text notes or both. If you even read one of these notes, you’re not going to have any idea what it’s going to sound like,” he says. “It’s just enough for me to be able to recall what I’ve stored internally. So it’s more like I’m creating these verbal triggers for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black man with a black face mask speaks to an older white man, with a stage curtain behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-40-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Jens Ibsen speaks with conductor Robert Geary after a practice session with the professional San Francisco choir Volti at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco on Feb. 7. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From there, he’ll transfer the ideas into notation software on his laptop where he’ll finesse the compositions until they are complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The material has to sort of live in my head for a while. And then the material tells me where it’s supposed to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Jens won the second annual\u003ca href=\"https://sfcm.edu/discover/initiatives/emerging-black-composers-project\"> Emerging Black Composers\u003c/a> award. The prize was the commission that ended up becoming “Drowned In Light.” He says that after experiencing such blatant racism in the Vienna Boys Choir, receiving this distinguished award years later, based in part on his race, elicited a complicated set of emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975828\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A document titled 'How god comes to the soul,' sits on someone's lap,\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240207-JENSIBSEN-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A composition by composer Jens Ibsen, ‘How god comes to the soul,’ sits on the lap of an attendee during a practice session in the basement of the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco on Feb. 7. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For a while, I felt cynical because it felt like I’ve been good this whole time. Why now?” he says. “But I look back on the cynicism and I have a little more empathy for myself because I can see that these people like me because they believe in my art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibsen says he hopes his experience can inspire musical institutions to continue to support the work of other artists pushing the boundaries of music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to keep this energy for composers of all kinds of marginalized backgrounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to correct a mis-identification of the professional San Francisco choir Volti.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11989196/heavy-classical-how-composer-jens-ibsen-is-shaking-up-the-classical-music-world","authors":["byline_news_11989196"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_29992","news_8"],"tags":["news_32662","news_27626","news_1425"],"featImg":"news_11989205","label":"news_26731"},"news_11989305":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11989305","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11989305","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-poised-to-agree-to-350k-settlement-in-excessive-force-case","title":"San José Poised to Agree to $350K Settlement in Excessive Force Case","publishDate":1717770601,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San José Poised to Agree to $350K Settlement in Excessive Force Case | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A woman who was kicked and dragged in front of her family by a San José police officer in 2020 is set to receive a $350,000 payout from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will consider final approval of the settlement with resident Guadalupe Marin at its June 11 meeting, nearly three years after Marin sued the city over the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident garnered significant attention in the immediate aftermath when a passerby posted a cell phone video of the violent encounter that was shared widely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin’s attorney, Sarah Marinho, described in a complaint filed in 2021 how Marin, her sister and her sister’s young children drove together to a McDonald’s on East Santa Clara Street just a few blocks from their home on July 22, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family was riding in a silver car Marin’s sister had purchased just days earlier from a mechanic, the complaint said. Soon after they pulled into the parking lot, two police officers, Matthew Rodriguez and Tyler Moran, approached with their guns aimed at the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police later claimed officers drew their guns immediately because they believed the car the family was riding in had evaded police twice in the week prior, though Marinho wrote that Marin never evaded police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez ordered Marin at gunpoint to get out of the car and get down on her knees, which Marin did, while Moran stood near her and aimed his gun at Marin’s sister in the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marinho wrote that Rodriguez knew Marin was unarmed because he could see she had nothing in her hands “and was wearing form-fitting shorts and a tank top.” Marin also put her hands behind her back after Rodriguez told her to do so.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"use-of-force\"]Marin “was objectively not a threat in any way to these officers,” Marinho wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Rodriguez then ordered Marin to crawl, Marin was confused because she was “already so close to Rodriguez that if she were to get down on her hands and knees, her face would be near the officer’s feet and there would be nowhere to crawl.” She “crawled” by inching forward on her knees slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez allegedly told Marin, “I’m going to kick you in the f—— face,” which shocked and confused Marin, who then sat back on her heels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only a second later, Rodriguez swiftly kicked (Marin) in the abdomen at full force, knocking the wind out of her,” Marinho wrote. Rodriguez then pushed (Marin) face down to the pavement and handcuffed her forcefully, saying ‘Why didn’t you f—— listen?’,” the complaint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer then “picked her up by the handcuffs and dragged her across the pavement while her 7-year-old nephew and 2-year-old niece screamed from within the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin’s face, knees and ankles were “rubbed raw and bloody” from being dragged on the pavement, and her shoulders were hyperextended. She couldn’t lift her arms or bend over for days after the encounter, the complaint said, and she needed assistance getting dressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, City Attorney Nora Frimann said, “We believe the settlement is fair and allows the City to avoid the risks of further litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marinho and Marin declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez wrote in an initial police report about the incident that Marin was “arrested without incident,” the complaint said. But after Sgt. Ronnie Lopez sent the report back as being too vague, Rodriguez documented his use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez told Moran to obtain video footage of the arrest from the McDonald’s security camera system and canvass for witnesses, but Moran “never tried in any way to obtain the video,” nor did he look for witnesses, the complaint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/__dianeedun/status/1286414043788410882\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one from the department ever attempted to obtain the McDonald’s video until civilian video of the police brutality went viral, and only then did Internal Affairs seek the video,” the complaint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin was charged with resisting arrest, though those charges were later dropped. Sgt. Lopez viewed police body camera video on the day of the arrest and later the passerby’s video and told Internal Affairs he did not think the use of force was excessive, although he wondered if it was “really necessary,” the complaint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CT scan of Marin at the hospital showed she had internal soft tissue damage, as well as significant external bruising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez was later charged with a misdemeanor assault under the color of authority, and his criminal trial is still pending.[aside label=\"San José Police Coverage\" tag=\"san-jose-police\"]San José Office of Employee Relations Assistant Director Allison Suggs said in an email Rodriguez is on paid leave currently, and Moran is no longer with the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marinho argued the excessive force by Rodriguez was part of an entrenched culture problem at San José Police Department. She also noted the city was “on notice of Rodriguez and other officers’ excessive force issues and filing of false reports about resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days before stopping Marin, Rodriguez and Moran used \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/23/violent-encounters-with-police-send-thousands-of-people-to-the-er-every-year\">excessive force on Anthony Cho\u003c/a>, a man suspected of being connected to a stolen car investigation, Marinho wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 18, 2020, Rodriguez and Moran stopped Cho, who surrendered after a short foot chase. While Cho was face down on the ground and not resisting, Moran kicked Cho in the head, and Rodriguez hit Cho with a baton on his head and body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho suffered head injuries that required staples. Marinho said he complained immediately about the use of force, alerting the department to the issue. Cho later sued the city and received $200,000 in a March 2023 settlement.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Guadalupe Marin was kicked in the stomach and dragged across a parking lot by a San José police officer in a violent encounter caught on video by a passerby.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717721981,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1009},"headData":{"title":"San José Poised to Agree to $350K Settlement in Excessive Force Case | KQED","description":"Guadalupe Marin was kicked in the stomach and dragged across a parking lot by a San José police officer in a violent encounter caught on video by a passerby.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San José Poised to Agree to $350K Settlement in Excessive Force Case","datePublished":"2024-06-07T07:30:01-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-06T17:59:41-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11989305/san-jose-poised-to-agree-to-350k-settlement-in-excessive-force-case","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A woman who was kicked and dragged in front of her family by a San José police officer in 2020 is set to receive a $350,000 payout from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will consider final approval of the settlement with resident Guadalupe Marin at its June 11 meeting, nearly three years after Marin sued the city over the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident garnered significant attention in the immediate aftermath when a passerby posted a cell phone video of the violent encounter that was shared widely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin’s attorney, Sarah Marinho, described in a complaint filed in 2021 how Marin, her sister and her sister’s young children drove together to a McDonald’s on East Santa Clara Street just a few blocks from their home on July 22, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family was riding in a silver car Marin’s sister had purchased just days earlier from a mechanic, the complaint said. Soon after they pulled into the parking lot, two police officers, Matthew Rodriguez and Tyler Moran, approached with their guns aimed at the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police later claimed officers drew their guns immediately because they believed the car the family was riding in had evaded police twice in the week prior, though Marinho wrote that Marin never evaded police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez ordered Marin at gunpoint to get out of the car and get down on her knees, which Marin did, while Moran stood near her and aimed his gun at Marin’s sister in the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marinho wrote that Rodriguez knew Marin was unarmed because he could see she had nothing in her hands “and was wearing form-fitting shorts and a tank top.” Marin also put her hands behind her back after Rodriguez told her to do so.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"use-of-force"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Marin “was objectively not a threat in any way to these officers,” Marinho wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Rodriguez then ordered Marin to crawl, Marin was confused because she was “already so close to Rodriguez that if she were to get down on her hands and knees, her face would be near the officer’s feet and there would be nowhere to crawl.” She “crawled” by inching forward on her knees slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez allegedly told Marin, “I’m going to kick you in the f—— face,” which shocked and confused Marin, who then sat back on her heels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only a second later, Rodriguez swiftly kicked (Marin) in the abdomen at full force, knocking the wind out of her,” Marinho wrote. Rodriguez then pushed (Marin) face down to the pavement and handcuffed her forcefully, saying ‘Why didn’t you f—— listen?’,” the complaint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer then “picked her up by the handcuffs and dragged her across the pavement while her 7-year-old nephew and 2-year-old niece screamed from within the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin’s face, knees and ankles were “rubbed raw and bloody” from being dragged on the pavement, and her shoulders were hyperextended. She couldn’t lift her arms or bend over for days after the encounter, the complaint said, and she needed assistance getting dressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, City Attorney Nora Frimann said, “We believe the settlement is fair and allows the City to avoid the risks of further litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marinho and Marin declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez wrote in an initial police report about the incident that Marin was “arrested without incident,” the complaint said. But after Sgt. Ronnie Lopez sent the report back as being too vague, Rodriguez documented his use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez told Moran to obtain video footage of the arrest from the McDonald’s security camera system and canvass for witnesses, but Moran “never tried in any way to obtain the video,” nor did he look for witnesses, the complaint said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1286414043788410882"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“No one from the department ever attempted to obtain the McDonald’s video until civilian video of the police brutality went viral, and only then did Internal Affairs seek the video,” the complaint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin was charged with resisting arrest, though those charges were later dropped. Sgt. Lopez viewed police body camera video on the day of the arrest and later the passerby’s video and told Internal Affairs he did not think the use of force was excessive, although he wondered if it was “really necessary,” the complaint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CT scan of Marin at the hospital showed she had internal soft tissue damage, as well as significant external bruising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez was later charged with a misdemeanor assault under the color of authority, and his criminal trial is still pending.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"San José Police Coverage ","tag":"san-jose-police"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San José Office of Employee Relations Assistant Director Allison Suggs said in an email Rodriguez is on paid leave currently, and Moran is no longer with the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marinho argued the excessive force by Rodriguez was part of an entrenched culture problem at San José Police Department. She also noted the city was “on notice of Rodriguez and other officers’ excessive force issues and filing of false reports about resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days before stopping Marin, Rodriguez and Moran used \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/23/violent-encounters-with-police-send-thousands-of-people-to-the-er-every-year\">excessive force on Anthony Cho\u003c/a>, a man suspected of being connected to a stolen car investigation, Marinho wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 18, 2020, Rodriguez and Moran stopped Cho, who surrendered after a short foot chase. While Cho was face down on the ground and not resisting, Moran kicked Cho in the head, and Rodriguez hit Cho with a baton on his head and body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho suffered head injuries that required staples. Marinho said he complained immediately about the use of force, alerting the department to the issue. Cho later sued the city and received $200,000 in a March 2023 settlement.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11989305/san-jose-poised-to-agree-to-350k-settlement-in-excessive-force-case","authors":["11906"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_22009","news_27858","news_667","news_25418"],"featImg":"news_11989256","label":"news"},"news_11988955":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988955","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988955","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tios-tacos-a-30-year-journey-of-authentic-mexican-cuisine-and-recycled-art","title":"Tio's Tacos, a 30-Year Journey of Authentic Mexican Cuisine and Recycled Art","publishDate":1717770645,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Tio’s Tacos, a 30-Year Journey of Authentic Mexican Cuisine and Recycled Art | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>If you drive through downtown Riverside, you might spot a huge orange butterfly hanging off the side of a building, an airplane parked on its roof and two giants made from recycled aluminum cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, you’ll spot mariachi musicians forged in metal and decorated with bottle caps. This is Tio’s Tacos. It’s not just a Mexican restaurant; it’s a sculpture garden and one immigrant entrepreneur’s labor of love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owner Martín Sanchez has spent more than 30 years developing authentic Mexican food inspired by frequent visits to his home country. And along the way, he’s transformed his one-acre taquería into a showcase for hundreds of works of art — all recycled from what most people call “garbage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw an opportunity in the garbage, in recycling,” Sanchez said. “I don’t have money to buy materials, but I have bottles. I have cans. I have what the restaurant throws away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989011\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four small statues representing ‘La Danza de los Viejitos’ stand next to a dining area that showcases different pieces of culture from the Mexican state of Michoacán on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez’s love for his hometown of Sahuayo, in the Mexican state of Michoacánis, is reflected in many of his pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we have ‘The Dance of the Old Men,’” Martín said as he pointed to a statue of traditional folk dancers in his back patio. “I always wanted to create different spaces. If you notice here, this dining area represents what my town is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his art also represents a journey to heal a childlike wonder that was sacrificed a long time ago. Sanchez said it’s a sacrifice many immigrants face due to the pressure to provide for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young boy, Sanchez loved to create toys made from scrap metal he found lying around. But after his father passed away, Sanchez had to work to contribute to the family’s finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989012\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hands of a mariachi musician, forged in metal and decorated with recycled materials at Tio’s Tacos on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years later, in 1984, at 16 years old, he immigrated to the United States and sold oranges on the side of the road in East Los Angeles. After some time, he opened a hot dog and taco cart business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the day, I’d sell hot dogs, and at night, I’d transform the cart to sell tacos,” Sanchez said. “And that’s how Tio’s Tacos was born.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez saved money for six years to buy the land where Tio’s Tacos stands today. Yet, as he was growing his business, he felt a pressure inside him that needed to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989013\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A taco plate with rice and beans at Tio’s Tacos on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I released the boy that I’d hindered, that I had to freeze in order to become a responsible adult as a kid,” Martín said. “Then, when I reached this point as an adult, I let that boy out, and that’s when the art began.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started collecting garbage from his restaurant and neatly separated the recyclable materials into different piles for upcoming projects he envisioned in his head. Over time, the plot of land behind his restaurant became filled with trash, and it became extremely noticeable. It reached the point where his family chastised him for the mounting garbage near his restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understood the sentiment from the people, from those around me,” Sanchez said. “But I saw the trash’s potential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989015\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sculpture made from recycled materials inside Tio’s Tacos on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, his trash piles would also catch the attention of the local government. He said he received complaints from the city. But as they saw this public eye-sore transform into a work of art, the complaints slowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They must have said, ‘We have to leave this crazy guy alone and see how far he gets,’” Sanchez said. “Nowadays, thank God, I have the support of the city. They support me, they congratulate me. I am what they call a ‘landmark’ here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez also has the support of the local arts community in Riverside. His work has been featured at the \u003ca href=\"https://riversideartmuseum.org/visit/the-cheech-marin-center-for-chicano-art-culture/\">Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture\u003c/a>, which is only a couple of blocks away from the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989016\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martín Sanchez (right) holds his grandson while standing next to his daughters, Kimberly, Estephanie, Maiten, his granddaughter Galilea and his wife Concepción on March 27, 2024. They stand in the dining area behind the restaurant where a majority of Martín’s work is located. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Esther Fernandez, the museum’s artistic director, said Tio’s Tacos makes her feel at home and said the art uniquely reflects the city’s culture.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='hidden-gems']“He’s creating a place here in Riverside, and it’s a destination,” Fernandez said. “It’s a place where people go and see themselves, see their family, their history, their memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez’s three daughters also consider Tio’s Tacos, a vital part of the Riverside community and are slowly inheriting the business. Estephanie, the oldest, said she plans to preserve the art and continue growing the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always said that the restaurant is something living and breathing. It moves and is constantly changing,” Estephanie said. “Equally important is that the community, the families, feel comfortable here and relax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martín Sanchez said he’s happy to hand the business over to his daughters and is excited to see where they take it. He said it gives him more time to create art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to dream like a boy, and I continue to dream like a boy and play like a boy,” Sanchez said. “That’s why every time I do a project, I imagine that I’m playing, and that’s the key to success to achieve something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Riverside taquería sits on 1 acre of land chock-full of hundreds of works of art, all made from recycled materials, that stand out alongside a menu of delicious Mexican dishes.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717776169,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1107},"headData":{"title":"Tio's Tacos, a 30-Year Journey of Authentic Mexican Cuisine and Recycled Art | KQED","description":"The Riverside taquería sits on 1 acre of land chock-full of hundreds of works of art, all made from recycled materials, that stand out alongside a menu of delicious Mexican dishes.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Tio's Tacos, a 30-Year Journey of Authentic Mexican Cuisine and Recycled Art","datePublished":"2024-06-07T07:30:45-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-07T09:02:49-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"The California Report Magazine","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/6ed20925-ee8f-42dd-80db-b1850176a9de/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Daniel Eduardo Hernandez","nprStoryId":"kqed-11988955","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988955/tios-tacos-a-30-year-journey-of-authentic-mexican-cuisine-and-recycled-art","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you drive through downtown Riverside, you might spot a huge orange butterfly hanging off the side of a building, an airplane parked on its roof and two giants made from recycled aluminum cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, you’ll spot mariachi musicians forged in metal and decorated with bottle caps. This is Tio’s Tacos. It’s not just a Mexican restaurant; it’s a sculpture garden and one immigrant entrepreneur’s labor of love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owner Martín Sanchez has spent more than 30 years developing authentic Mexican food inspired by frequent visits to his home country. And along the way, he’s transformed his one-acre taquería into a showcase for hundreds of works of art — all recycled from what most people call “garbage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw an opportunity in the garbage, in recycling,” Sanchez said. “I don’t have money to buy materials, but I have bottles. I have cans. I have what the restaurant throws away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989011\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-05-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four small statues representing ‘La Danza de los Viejitos’ stand next to a dining area that showcases different pieces of culture from the Mexican state of Michoacán on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez’s love for his hometown of Sahuayo, in the Mexican state of Michoacánis, is reflected in many of his pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we have ‘The Dance of the Old Men,’” Martín said as he pointed to a statue of traditional folk dancers in his back patio. “I always wanted to create different spaces. If you notice here, this dining area represents what my town is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his art also represents a journey to heal a childlike wonder that was sacrificed a long time ago. Sanchez said it’s a sacrifice many immigrants face due to the pressure to provide for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young boy, Sanchez loved to create toys made from scrap metal he found lying around. But after his father passed away, Sanchez had to work to contribute to the family’s finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989012\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hands of a mariachi musician, forged in metal and decorated with recycled materials at Tio’s Tacos on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years later, in 1984, at 16 years old, he immigrated to the United States and sold oranges on the side of the road in East Los Angeles. After some time, he opened a hot dog and taco cart business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the day, I’d sell hot dogs, and at night, I’d transform the cart to sell tacos,” Sanchez said. “And that’s how Tio’s Tacos was born.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez saved money for six years to buy the land where Tio’s Tacos stands today. Yet, as he was growing his business, he felt a pressure inside him that needed to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989013\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/TiosTacos02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A taco plate with rice and beans at Tio’s Tacos on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I released the boy that I’d hindered, that I had to freeze in order to become a responsible adult as a kid,” Martín said. “Then, when I reached this point as an adult, I let that boy out, and that’s when the art began.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started collecting garbage from his restaurant and neatly separated the recyclable materials into different piles for upcoming projects he envisioned in his head. Over time, the plot of land behind his restaurant became filled with trash, and it became extremely noticeable. It reached the point where his family chastised him for the mounting garbage near his restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understood the sentiment from the people, from those around me,” Sanchez said. “But I saw the trash’s potential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989015\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sculpture made from recycled materials inside Tio’s Tacos on March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, his trash piles would also catch the attention of the local government. He said he received complaints from the city. But as they saw this public eye-sore transform into a work of art, the complaints slowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They must have said, ‘We have to leave this crazy guy alone and see how far he gets,’” Sanchez said. “Nowadays, thank God, I have the support of the city. They support me, they congratulate me. I am what they call a ‘landmark’ here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez also has the support of the local arts community in Riverside. His work has been featured at the \u003ca href=\"https://riversideartmuseum.org/visit/the-cheech-marin-center-for-chicano-art-culture/\">Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture\u003c/a>, which is only a couple of blocks away from the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989016\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Tios-Tacos-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martín Sanchez (right) holds his grandson while standing next to his daughters, Kimberly, Estephanie, Maiten, his granddaughter Galilea and his wife Concepción on March 27, 2024. They stand in the dining area behind the restaurant where a majority of Martín’s work is located. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Esther Fernandez, the museum’s artistic director, said Tio’s Tacos makes her feel at home and said the art uniquely reflects the city’s culture.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"hidden-gems"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He’s creating a place here in Riverside, and it’s a destination,” Fernandez said. “It’s a place where people go and see themselves, see their family, their history, their memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez’s three daughters also consider Tio’s Tacos, a vital part of the Riverside community and are slowly inheriting the business. Estephanie, the oldest, said she plans to preserve the art and continue growing the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always said that the restaurant is something living and breathing. It moves and is constantly changing,” Estephanie said. “Equally important is that the community, the families, feel comfortable here and relax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martín Sanchez said he’s happy to hand the business over to his daughters and is excited to see where they take it. He said it gives him more time to create art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to dream like a boy, and I continue to dream like a boy and play like a boy,” Sanchez said. “That’s why every time I do a project, I imagine that I’m playing, and that’s the key to success to achieve something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988955/tios-tacos-a-30-year-journey-of-authentic-mexican-cuisine-and-recycled-art","authors":["byline_news_11988955"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_333","news_19623","news_22732","news_30233"],"featImg":"news_11989010","label":"source_news_11988955"},"news_11989467":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11989467","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11989467","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sfpd-seeks-person-of-interest-in-racist-threats-against-alamo-square-man","title":"SFPD Seeks Person of Interest in Racist Threats Against Alamo Square Man","publishDate":1717797526,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SFPD Seeks Person of Interest in Racist Threats Against Alamo Square Man | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco police on Friday released surveillance images of a person of interest in connection with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985347/san-francisco-police-urged-to-take-alarming-racist-threats-seriously\">racist threats against Terry Williams\u003c/a>, an Alamo Square resident whose home was destroyed in a fire after he had received two menacing packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the person, who “may have information about the case,” officials said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/954505029?share=copy\">released by the San Francisco Police Department\u003c/a> shows a person wearing a black hood, black coat and black pants walking down a sidewalk and carrying what appears to be a brown paper bag. It is timestamped at 2:21 a.m. on May 5, the date that Williams found the second package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11989479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/capture-1-1-160x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/capture-1-1-160x202.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/capture-1-1.png 373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the person shown in the May 5 video. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SFPD did not immediately respond to a request for further information about the person and their potential connection to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package that Williams, 49, found outside his Grove Street home on May 5 contained a doll painted in blackface with the words “Get out of the Alamo Square district” on the front, as well as a small plastic grenade and Ku Klux Klan imagery. It came after he found a similar package on April 26 containing another doll with a noose around its neck, racist slurs written on the doll and printouts of racist imagery.[aside postID=\"news_11985347,news_11987465\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“They said they’re going to exterminate me, eradicate me, that I don’t belong in this neighborhood,” Williams told KQED after the second incident. The essence of the message, he said, was, “It’s not a Black neighborhood no more — get out of here, you don’t belong here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, the home where Williams lived with his parents was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987465/neighbors-rally-again-to-support-san-francisco-dog-walker-following-house-fire\">destroyed in a fire\u003c/a>. The cause of the May 21 blaze has not been determined, and it remains under investigation by the San Francisco police and fire departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Mariano Elias, an SFFD spokesperson, said fire officials expect the investigative report to be completed within three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD, meanwhile, is investigating the racist packages as a hate crime. Anyone with information should call 415-575-4444 or text TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Police released images of a person who “may have information about the case” on threatening packages left at Terry Williams’ home, which was destroyed in a fire weeks later.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717798561,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":401},"headData":{"title":"SFPD Seeks Person of Interest in Racist Threats Against Alamo Square Man | KQED","description":"Police released images of a person who “may have information about the case” on threatening packages left at Terry Williams’ home, which was destroyed in a fire weeks later.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SFPD Seeks Person of Interest in Racist Threats Against Alamo Square Man","datePublished":"2024-06-07T14:58:46-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-07T15:16:01-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11989467","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11989467/sfpd-seeks-person-of-interest-in-racist-threats-against-alamo-square-man","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco police on Friday released surveillance images of a person of interest in connection with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985347/san-francisco-police-urged-to-take-alarming-racist-threats-seriously\">racist threats against Terry Williams\u003c/a>, an Alamo Square resident whose home was destroyed in a fire after he had received two menacing packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the person, who “may have information about the case,” officials said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/954505029?share=copy\">released by the San Francisco Police Department\u003c/a> shows a person wearing a black hood, black coat and black pants walking down a sidewalk and carrying what appears to be a brown paper bag. It is timestamped at 2:21 a.m. on May 5, the date that Williams found the second package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11989479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/capture-1-1-160x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/capture-1-1-160x202.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/capture-1-1.png 373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the person shown in the May 5 video. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SFPD did not immediately respond to a request for further information about the person and their potential connection to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package that Williams, 49, found outside his Grove Street home on May 5 contained a doll painted in blackface with the words “Get out of the Alamo Square district” on the front, as well as a small plastic grenade and Ku Klux Klan imagery. It came after he found a similar package on April 26 containing another doll with a noose around its neck, racist slurs written on the doll and printouts of racist imagery.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11985347,news_11987465","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They said they’re going to exterminate me, eradicate me, that I don’t belong in this neighborhood,” Williams told KQED after the second incident. The essence of the message, he said, was, “It’s not a Black neighborhood no more — get out of here, you don’t belong here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, the home where Williams lived with his parents was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987465/neighbors-rally-again-to-support-san-francisco-dog-walker-following-house-fire\">destroyed in a fire\u003c/a>. The cause of the May 21 blaze has not been determined, and it remains under investigation by the San Francisco police and fire departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Mariano Elias, an SFFD spokesperson, said fire officials expect the investigative report to be completed within three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD, meanwhile, is investigating the racist packages as a hate crime. Anyone with information should call 415-575-4444 or text TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11989467/sfpd-seeks-person-of-interest-in-racist-threats-against-alamo-square-man","authors":["11909"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_33461","news_17725","news_5660","news_19216","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11989455","label":"news"},"news_11989301":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11989301","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11989301","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"reparations-efforts-in-alameda-county-stumble-and-try-to-pick-themselves-up","title":"Reparations Efforts in Alameda County Stumble and Try to Pick Themselves Up","publishDate":1717768843,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Reparations Efforts in Alameda County Stumble and Try to Pick Themselves Up | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>An Alameda County commission designed to study anti-Black racism and come up with a plan to compensate harmed residents was expected to complete its work by this July. Instead, it has hardly started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created in March 2023, the 15-member body is now asking for two more years and $5 million in funding to get the job done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though county government moves slowly in a normal year, decisions kicked down the road during the COVID-19 pandemic and months spent handling the recall of the Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price have slowed the county’s decision-making process to a crawl, according to Nate Miley, president of the Board of Supervisors and author of the resolution that created the Reparations Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This resulted in glacial progress on some of the county’s most highly anticipated initiatives, including the launch of its Elections Commission, the creation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988941/alameda-county-again-delays-vote-to-create-civilian-oversight-of-sheriff\">civilian oversight of the county sheriff\u003c/a> and its Reparations Commission. For instance, it took nine months for county supervisors to appoint the reparations commissioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it would take as long to get people appointed,” Miley told KQED. “We do want to have a sense of urgency, and that’s why I was kind of looking at a year and a half, but maybe I might have been a bit ambitious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission was borne out of two Board of Supervisors resolutions — in \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_06_07_11/PROCLAMATIONS_COMMENDATIONS/Carson_Miley_Slavery_of_African_Americans.pdf\">2011\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Supervisor-Miley_302233.pdf\">2020\u003c/a> — that apologized for the enslavement and racial segregation of Black Americans. The second vowed the county would examine the role it played in perpetuating discrimination against Black residents and come up with a plan to compensate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County wasn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987911/how-george-floyds-murder-ignited-solidarity-in-the-streets-and-californias-reparations-movement\">the only one to take up the idea of reparations at that time\u003c/a>, in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minnesota. Its commission was designed to be a local facsimile of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948198/examining-reparations-and-the-historical-harms-of-slavery-and-racism-in-california\">the statewide reparations task force\u003c/a>, which studied the history of state-sanctioned discrimination against Black residents for two years and submitted \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/report\">a plan\u003c/a> including over 100 policy proposals to the state Legislature last June. When the Alameda County commissioners began meeting in December 2023, one of their first actions was to study the landscape of reparations efforts nationwide and define their scope within it.[aside postID=news_11981271 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24032786348814-1020x680.jpg']“We are trying not to recreate the wheel,” Debra Gore-Mann, president and CEO of Oakland racial justice organization the Greenlining Institute, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In looking at other reparations projects, Gore-Mann said the Alameda County Commission quickly realized it didn’t have sufficient support or time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting on May 30, Gore-Mann asked supervisors for a dedicated staff, approval to make formal partnerships with Bay Area institutions, and a new deadline of June 30, 2026, to complete their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission also asked for a budget of about $5 million, dwarfing the initial budget allocation of approximately $51,000. The requested budget would support research, public outreach and community listening sessions over the next two years. Commission members currently receive a $50 stipend for each meeting they attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think $5 million is a hefty amount of funding,” Miley said, pointing to the county’s budget deficit, projected to reach between $70 million to $100 million this year. He added that getting a board response to budget and other support requests could take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Gore-Mann is concerned the commission will lose its progress so far as faith in the county’s commitment to reparations falters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without a sense of what resources might be available, it’s hard to keep commissioners engaged,” Gore-Mann said at the May meeting, adding the timeline extension alone might cause commissioners to drop off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerned about the waning urgency for racial justice initiatives need only look as far as the Alameda County city of Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989386\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural at A Street and Maple Court in Hayward on Dec. 2, 2021, pays tribute to Russell City. Mural artists are Joshua Powell, assisted by Wythe Bowart, Nicole Pierret and Brent McHugh. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There, the \u003ca href=\"https://hayward-ca.gov/russell-city-reparative-justice-project\">Russell City Reparative Justice Project\u003c/a> steering committee set out to study the local government’s role in the destruction of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">Russell City \u003c/a>— a bayside enclave of mostly Black and Latino residents who were forced from their homes in the 1960s using eminent domain. In March, the committee delivered \u003ca href=\"https://hayward.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12787993&GUID=35DDA5EF-2A11-41BE-BD42-04AEB8E2F94D\">a 26-part plan for reparations\u003c/a> to the city council, including guaranteed basic income for surviving former residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, there’s been little movement toward making those recommendations a reality. At a meeting on May 20, some former Russell City residents expressed concern that compensation from the city may not be found in their lifetimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steering committee chair Aisha Knowles is more optimistic. She said the committee may have disbanded, but their work is far from done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, people are going to be frustrated,” Knowles, whose father grew up in Russell City, told KQED. “But it also means people are listening. If nobody was saying anything, I would wonder what was going on. But because people are expressing joy, frustration, confusion, it means that work is in progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowles said she hopes the county commission might partner with Hayward to move the Russell City reparations project forward. If the pace of the Alameda County Commission’s work so far is any indication, she and Russell City’s former residents might be waiting a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Alameda County Reparations Commission is asking for two more years and $5 million in funding to get the job done after a slow start.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717794237,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":950},"headData":{"title":"Reparations Efforts in Alameda County Stumble and Try to Pick Themselves Up | KQED","description":"The Alameda County Reparations Commission is asking for two more years and $5 million in funding to get the job done after a slow start.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Reparations Efforts in Alameda County Stumble and Try to Pick Themselves Up","datePublished":"2024-06-07T07:00:43-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-07T14:03:57-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11989301","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11989301/reparations-efforts-in-alameda-county-stumble-and-try-to-pick-themselves-up","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An Alameda County commission designed to study anti-Black racism and come up with a plan to compensate harmed residents was expected to complete its work by this July. Instead, it has hardly started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created in March 2023, the 15-member body is now asking for two more years and $5 million in funding to get the job done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though county government moves slowly in a normal year, decisions kicked down the road during the COVID-19 pandemic and months spent handling the recall of the Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price have slowed the county’s decision-making process to a crawl, according to Nate Miley, president of the Board of Supervisors and author of the resolution that created the Reparations Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This resulted in glacial progress on some of the county’s most highly anticipated initiatives, including the launch of its Elections Commission, the creation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988941/alameda-county-again-delays-vote-to-create-civilian-oversight-of-sheriff\">civilian oversight of the county sheriff\u003c/a> and its Reparations Commission. For instance, it took nine months for county supervisors to appoint the reparations commissioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it would take as long to get people appointed,” Miley told KQED. “We do want to have a sense of urgency, and that’s why I was kind of looking at a year and a half, but maybe I might have been a bit ambitious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission was borne out of two Board of Supervisors resolutions — in \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_06_07_11/PROCLAMATIONS_COMMENDATIONS/Carson_Miley_Slavery_of_African_Americans.pdf\">2011\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Supervisor-Miley_302233.pdf\">2020\u003c/a> — that apologized for the enslavement and racial segregation of Black Americans. The second vowed the county would examine the role it played in perpetuating discrimination against Black residents and come up with a plan to compensate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County wasn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987911/how-george-floyds-murder-ignited-solidarity-in-the-streets-and-californias-reparations-movement\">the only one to take up the idea of reparations at that time\u003c/a>, in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minnesota. Its commission was designed to be a local facsimile of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948198/examining-reparations-and-the-historical-harms-of-slavery-and-racism-in-california\">the statewide reparations task force\u003c/a>, which studied the history of state-sanctioned discrimination against Black residents for two years and submitted \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/report\">a plan\u003c/a> including over 100 policy proposals to the state Legislature last June. When the Alameda County commissioners began meeting in December 2023, one of their first actions was to study the landscape of reparations efforts nationwide and define their scope within it.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11981271","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24032786348814-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We are trying not to recreate the wheel,” Debra Gore-Mann, president and CEO of Oakland racial justice organization the Greenlining Institute, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In looking at other reparations projects, Gore-Mann said the Alameda County Commission quickly realized it didn’t have sufficient support or time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting on May 30, Gore-Mann asked supervisors for a dedicated staff, approval to make formal partnerships with Bay Area institutions, and a new deadline of June 30, 2026, to complete their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission also asked for a budget of about $5 million, dwarfing the initial budget allocation of approximately $51,000. The requested budget would support research, public outreach and community listening sessions over the next two years. Commission members currently receive a $50 stipend for each meeting they attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think $5 million is a hefty amount of funding,” Miley said, pointing to the county’s budget deficit, projected to reach between $70 million to $100 million this year. He added that getting a board response to budget and other support requests could take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Gore-Mann is concerned the commission will lose its progress so far as faith in the county’s commitment to reparations falters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without a sense of what resources might be available, it’s hard to keep commissioners engaged,” Gore-Mann said at the May meeting, adding the timeline extension alone might cause commissioners to drop off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerned about the waning urgency for racial justice initiatives need only look as far as the Alameda County city of Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989386\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/008_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural at A Street and Maple Court in Hayward on Dec. 2, 2021, pays tribute to Russell City. Mural artists are Joshua Powell, assisted by Wythe Bowart, Nicole Pierret and Brent McHugh. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There, the \u003ca href=\"https://hayward-ca.gov/russell-city-reparative-justice-project\">Russell City Reparative Justice Project\u003c/a> steering committee set out to study the local government’s role in the destruction of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">Russell City \u003c/a>— a bayside enclave of mostly Black and Latino residents who were forced from their homes in the 1960s using eminent domain. In March, the committee delivered \u003ca href=\"https://hayward.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12787993&GUID=35DDA5EF-2A11-41BE-BD42-04AEB8E2F94D\">a 26-part plan for reparations\u003c/a> to the city council, including guaranteed basic income for surviving former residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, there’s been little movement toward making those recommendations a reality. At a meeting on May 20, some former Russell City residents expressed concern that compensation from the city may not be found in their lifetimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steering committee chair Aisha Knowles is more optimistic. She said the committee may have disbanded, but their work is far from done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, people are going to be frustrated,” Knowles, whose father grew up in Russell City, told KQED. “But it also means people are listening. If nobody was saying anything, I would wonder what was going on. But because people are expressing joy, frustration, confusion, it means that work is in progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowles said she hopes the county commission might partner with Hayward to move the Russell City reparations project forward. If the pace of the Alameda County Commission’s work so far is any indication, she and Russell City’s former residents might be waiting a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11989301/reparations-efforts-in-alameda-county-stumble-and-try-to-pick-themselves-up","authors":["11772"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_260","news_33461","news_30652","news_24461","news_2923","news_30320"],"featImg":"news_11989385","label":"news"},"forum_2010101905993":{"type":"posts","id":"forum_2010101905993","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"forum","id":"2010101905993","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"supreme-court-set-to-decide-landmark-cases-amid-ethics-controversies","title":"Supreme Court Set to Decide Landmark Cases Amid Ethics Controversies","publishDate":1717800008,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Supreme Court Set to Decide Landmark Cases Amid Ethics Controversies | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"forum"},"content":"\u003cp>With its term drawing to a close, the U.S. Supreme Court is getting ready to rule on major issues like abortion access, gun regulations, and whether former president Trump has immunity from civil litigation. Meanwhile, Justice Samuel Alito is still facing questions – and calls for recusal– over political flags flown at his houses. 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Patel hopes the shot — a long-acting antipsychotic — will help her meet all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel, medical director of Akido Street Medicine, is one of many street doctors throughout California using these injections as an increasingly common tool to help combat the state’s intertwined homelessness and mental health crises. Typically administered into a patient’s shoulder muscle, the medication slowly releases into the bloodstream over time, providing relief from symptoms of psychosis for a month or longer. The shots replace a patient’s oral medication — no more taking a pill every day. For people who are homeless and routinely have their pills stolen, can’t make it to a pharmacy for a refill or simply forget to take them, the shots can mean the difference between staying on their medication, or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been an absolute game-changer,” Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street medicine teams bring the shots directly to their patients wherever they are — whether it’s in a tent along Skid Row in Los Angeles, in a dugout in the middle of a field in the Central Valley, or along the bank of a stream in Shasta County. Doctors can diagnose someone, prescribe the medication, get their consent and give the shot within a matter of days — or sometimes even more quickly — and with minimal paperwork and red tape. They don’t need a psychiatrist’s sign-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated that California is home to more than 180,000 homeless residents. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/08/care-court-california-start/\">How to help\u003c/a> the sickest of them — people with severe, untreated psychosis who might wander into traffic or otherwise put themselves in danger — has become a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2023/12/mental-health-conservatorship-newsom/\">hot-button issue\u003c/a>, with Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers creating new and sometimes controversial ways to get people into treatment. In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CASPEH_Report_62023.pdf\">UCSF survey (PDF)\u003c/a> of homeless Californians, 12% reported experiencing hallucinations in the past 30 days, and more than a quarter said they’d ever been hospitalized for a mental health condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors say the goal of giving an antipsychotic shot to someone living in an encampment is to get them thinking clearly, so that they can start engaging with social workers, sign up for benefits and get on housing waitlists. While Newsom’s new CARE Court allows judges to order people into mental health treatment, and other recent legislation makes it easier to put people with a serious mental illness into conservatorships, doctors administering street injections take a different approach. The treatment is voluntary, and people can get help where they are, instead of in a locked facility.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"homelessness\"]Some success stories are dramatic. Doctors talk about patients who one day are babbling incoherently, and a week after a shot, are having conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been pretty common that that’s the initiation of, ‘We’re going indoors,’” said Dr. Coley King, director of homeless health care for the Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles. He said he’s seen dozens of patients get off the street after taking these shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with any medication, the shots can have side effects. And while a patient can stop taking a pill and generally put a stop to a negative reaction, once they’ve been given a shot, they have no choice but to wait a month for the drug to wear off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite some street doctors’ rave reviews, injectable antipsychotics still aren’t reaching everyone who experts say they could help. Street medicine teams report having just a handful of patients on these medications at any one time (King’s team in Los Angeles has about two dozen). Some patients don’t want the shots, balking at the idea of having a drug in their system for an entire month, especially if they have feelings of paranoia related to health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And street doctors complain that hospitals still seem to prefer discharging patients from temporary psychiatric holds with a bottle of pills they may or may not take — instead of giving them a long-acting shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-losing-track-of-patients\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Losing track of patients\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges street doctors face in administering these shots is following up with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kern County, Patel hasn’t seen the woman he’s looking for since his team gave her first antipsychotic shot almost two months ago. Now she’s past due for another dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worrying, Patel said, “because I don’t know how she did on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last place they saw her was at an encampment known as “The Sump” in the Central Valley farming community of Lamont, where she lived in a plywood shack along a muddy ditch behind a farm. But code enforcement recently cleared everyone out of that area, and Patel’s team doesn’t have a phone number or any other way to contact her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rishi Patel from the Akido street medicine team checks on several unhoused people on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are increasingly using long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication to stabilize the mental health of people living in homeless encampments. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first place they look is another encampment known as “the Shrine,” because it once held a shrine to Santa Muerte, a Mexican saint of death often prayed to by drug dealers. The team drives the van through an empty field of dead, yellow grass. Several people are living in room-sized pits they’ve dug into the dirt and covered with tarps and sheets of metal. Next to the vacant land is a vineyard, with rows of vines dotted with small, green grapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not there, so the team hands out sack lunches and bottles of water, then gets back in the van and leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen results,” said Kirk McGowan, a street medicine nurse with Akido. “But we’ve seen more failures than successes. That’s just kind of the nature of the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who should prescribe antipsychotic injections?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In most cases, the people prescribing and administering antipsychotic shots in homeless encampments are general practice doctors — not specially trained psychiatrists. That’s because despite the growing prevalence of street medicine, street psychiatrists are still rare, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CAStreetMedLandscapeSurveyReport.pdf\">USC report (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look over your shoulder and there’s not a psychiatrist there helping you out,” King said. “And we want to meet the need. We want to take care of these patients. They’re really, really ill, they’re really disorganized, and suffering and dying on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no legal restrictions preventing a general practice doctor from administering these injections. But some practitioners think the responsibility should be reserved for psychiatric providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989539\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rishi Patel from the Akido street medicine team checks on an unhoused man living in a vineyard in Arvin on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are increasingly using long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication to stabilize the mental health of people living in homeless encampments. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These medications are in there for an extended period of time,” said Keri Weinstock, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who practices street medicine in Shasta County. “They do come with risks. There are specialty things that come along with some of these specialty meds, and it’s a lot to learn when you have to know everything else, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some street doctors who give these shots seek out additional psychiatric training, while others learn on the job — often with a psychiatrist on speed dial, just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s rocket science to diagnose schizophrenia, as long as we’ve done it with some thoughtfulness,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In-the-field diagnoses aren’t always clear-cut, Patel said. Sometimes, people do such a good job of hiding their symptoms that it’s hard to tell they’re dealing with psychosis. Or, instead of experiencing obvious hallucinations or other symptoms commonly associated with schizophrenia, patients experience “negative symptoms,” such as extreme social withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When those types of cases arise, Patel calls a psychologist for a second opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these drugs are generally considered safe, they do come with a risk of side effects that can include dizziness, sedation, stiffness and decreased mobility. Those symptoms might be no big deal for someone living in a house, but for someone on the street, could be catastrophic, said Dr. Shayan Rab, a street psychiatrist with Los Angeles County’s Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement team. It could make someone more vulnerable to being attacked or robbed, or prevent them from accessing food or shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very serious kind of action that’s being taken and a lot of time needs to be spent before you say, ‘Hey, this individual is safe for a long-acting injection,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make sure a patient doesn’t have an adverse reaction, doctors typically give them an oral dose of the same medication for a few days before administering the shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989540\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Abilify Maintena shot being prepared by the Akido street medicine team at their main office in Bakersfield on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are increasingly using long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication to stabilize the mental health of people living in homeless encampments. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s also a risk that after a street doctor gives someone a shot, that patient could later get sent to the hospital on a temporary psychiatric hold. Doctors there might not know the patient already has a long-acting dose of antipsychotic medication in their body, and might give them another dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before giving someone a shot, Dr. Aislinn Bird wants to be 100% sure their symptoms are actually caused by psychotic disorder, such as schizophrenia, and not complex PTSD, major depressive disorder, methamphetamine use, or something else. Overdiagnosis of psychotic disorders is rampant, especially in the African American community, Bird said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be sure you really know the correct diagnosis,” said Bird, who serves as director of Integrated Care at Health Care for the Homeless in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dr. Susan Partovi, who practices street medicine on Skid Row in Los Angeles, said that’s an “antiquated way of thinking.” When someone is experiencing psychosis, it’s an emergency that needs to be treated as soon as possible, no matter the cause, she said. Her preference is to treat the symptoms first, and then see if the patient wants to work on other issues, such as substance use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antipsychotic injectables, such as Abilify and Invega, tend to be most prevalent in street medicine practices. But street doctors also administer long-acting injectable HIV medication, as well as medication for addiction such as Vivitrol — an injectable, long-acting medication that can help reduce cravings for opioids and alcohol, and protect against overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-silencing-the-voices-in-his-head\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Silencing the voices in his head\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Fonseca Jr., who goes by “Ricky,” has been homeless for two years, living in a tent behind a Dollar Tree, then in a park in rural Kern County. The 31-year-old said he was working as a welder until he had a sudden mental breakdown and started hearing voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The voices said horrible things to him. Sometimes they yelled, and he yelled back, scaring those around him. He used methamphetamine to cope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was getting to the point where I just felt like killing myself,” Fonseca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months ago, Fonseca started taking a monthly shot of the antipsychotic drug Abilify. Since then, “everything’s changed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Fonseca is staying at a friend’s house and considering going to school. He says he’s stopped using meth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can finally hear the birds and the crickets,” he said. “I couldn’t hear them before.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Doctors on the front lines of California’s homelessness and mental health crises are using monthly injections to treat psychosis in their most vulnerable patients.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717870924,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":2138},"headData":{"title":"How Shots Instead of Pills Could Change California's Homeless Crisis | KQED","description":"Doctors on the front lines of California’s homelessness and mental health crises are using monthly injections to treat psychosis in their most vulnerable patients.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How Shots Instead of Pills Could Change California's Homeless Crisis","datePublished":"2024-06-08T07:00:44-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-08T11:22:04-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/06/california-homeless-street-medicine-injections/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/marisa-kendall/\">Marisa Kendall\u003c/a>","nprStoryId":"kqed-11989515","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11989515/how-shots-instead-of-pills-could-change-californias-homeless-crisis","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As Dr. Rishi Patel’s street medicine van bounces over dirt roads and empty fields in rural Kern County, he’s looking for a particular patient he knows is overdue for her shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman, who has schizophrenia and has been living outside for five years, has several goals for herself: Start thinking more clearly, stop using meth and get an ID so she can visit her son in jail. Patel hopes the shot — a long-acting antipsychotic — will help her meet all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel, medical director of Akido Street Medicine, is one of many street doctors throughout California using these injections as an increasingly common tool to help combat the state’s intertwined homelessness and mental health crises. Typically administered into a patient’s shoulder muscle, the medication slowly releases into the bloodstream over time, providing relief from symptoms of psychosis for a month or longer. The shots replace a patient’s oral medication — no more taking a pill every day. For people who are homeless and routinely have their pills stolen, can’t make it to a pharmacy for a refill or simply forget to take them, the shots can mean the difference between staying on their medication, or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been an absolute game-changer,” Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street medicine teams bring the shots directly to their patients wherever they are — whether it’s in a tent along Skid Row in Los Angeles, in a dugout in the middle of a field in the Central Valley, or along the bank of a stream in Shasta County. Doctors can diagnose someone, prescribe the medication, get their consent and give the shot within a matter of days — or sometimes even more quickly — and with minimal paperwork and red tape. They don’t need a psychiatrist’s sign-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated that California is home to more than 180,000 homeless residents. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/08/care-court-california-start/\">How to help\u003c/a> the sickest of them — people with severe, untreated psychosis who might wander into traffic or otherwise put themselves in danger — has become a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2023/12/mental-health-conservatorship-newsom/\">hot-button issue\u003c/a>, with Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers creating new and sometimes controversial ways to get people into treatment. In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CASPEH_Report_62023.pdf\">UCSF survey (PDF)\u003c/a> of homeless Californians, 12% reported experiencing hallucinations in the past 30 days, and more than a quarter said they’d ever been hospitalized for a mental health condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors say the goal of giving an antipsychotic shot to someone living in an encampment is to get them thinking clearly, so that they can start engaging with social workers, sign up for benefits and get on housing waitlists. While Newsom’s new CARE Court allows judges to order people into mental health treatment, and other recent legislation makes it easier to put people with a serious mental illness into conservatorships, doctors administering street injections take a different approach. The treatment is voluntary, and people can get help where they are, instead of in a locked facility.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"homelessness"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some success stories are dramatic. Doctors talk about patients who one day are babbling incoherently, and a week after a shot, are having conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been pretty common that that’s the initiation of, ‘We’re going indoors,’” said Dr. Coley King, director of homeless health care for the Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles. He said he’s seen dozens of patients get off the street after taking these shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with any medication, the shots can have side effects. And while a patient can stop taking a pill and generally put a stop to a negative reaction, once they’ve been given a shot, they have no choice but to wait a month for the drug to wear off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite some street doctors’ rave reviews, injectable antipsychotics still aren’t reaching everyone who experts say they could help. Street medicine teams report having just a handful of patients on these medications at any one time (King’s team in Los Angeles has about two dozen). Some patients don’t want the shots, balking at the idea of having a drug in their system for an entire month, especially if they have feelings of paranoia related to health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And street doctors complain that hospitals still seem to prefer discharging patients from temporary psychiatric holds with a bottle of pills they may or may not take — instead of giving them a long-acting shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-losing-track-of-patients\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Losing track of patients\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges street doctors face in administering these shots is following up with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kern County, Patel hasn’t seen the woman he’s looking for since his team gave her first antipsychotic shot almost two months ago. Now she’s past due for another dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worrying, Patel said, “because I don’t know how she did on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last place they saw her was at an encampment known as “The Sump” in the Central Valley farming community of Lamont, where she lived in a plywood shack along a muddy ditch behind a farm. But code enforcement recently cleared everyone out of that area, and Patel’s team doesn’t have a phone number or any other way to contact her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_15-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rishi Patel from the Akido street medicine team checks on several unhoused people on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are increasingly using long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication to stabilize the mental health of people living in homeless encampments. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first place they look is another encampment known as “the Shrine,” because it once held a shrine to Santa Muerte, a Mexican saint of death often prayed to by drug dealers. The team drives the van through an empty field of dead, yellow grass. Several people are living in room-sized pits they’ve dug into the dirt and covered with tarps and sheets of metal. Next to the vacant land is a vineyard, with rows of vines dotted with small, green grapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not there, so the team hands out sack lunches and bottles of water, then gets back in the van and leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen results,” said Kirk McGowan, a street medicine nurse with Akido. “But we’ve seen more failures than successes. That’s just kind of the nature of the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who should prescribe antipsychotic injections?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In most cases, the people prescribing and administering antipsychotic shots in homeless encampments are general practice doctors — not specially trained psychiatrists. That’s because despite the growing prevalence of street medicine, street psychiatrists are still rare, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CAStreetMedLandscapeSurveyReport.pdf\">USC report (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look over your shoulder and there’s not a psychiatrist there helping you out,” King said. “And we want to meet the need. We want to take care of these patients. They’re really, really ill, they’re really disorganized, and suffering and dying on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no legal restrictions preventing a general practice doctor from administering these injections. But some practitioners think the responsibility should be reserved for psychiatric providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989539\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_11-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rishi Patel from the Akido street medicine team checks on an unhoused man living in a vineyard in Arvin on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are increasingly using long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication to stabilize the mental health of people living in homeless encampments. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These medications are in there for an extended period of time,” said Keri Weinstock, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who practices street medicine in Shasta County. “They do come with risks. There are specialty things that come along with some of these specialty meds, and it’s a lot to learn when you have to know everything else, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some street doctors who give these shots seek out additional psychiatric training, while others learn on the job — often with a psychiatrist on speed dial, just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s rocket science to diagnose schizophrenia, as long as we’ve done it with some thoughtfulness,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In-the-field diagnoses aren’t always clear-cut, Patel said. Sometimes, people do such a good job of hiding their symptoms that it’s hard to tell they’re dealing with psychosis. Or, instead of experiencing obvious hallucinations or other symptoms commonly associated with schizophrenia, patients experience “negative symptoms,” such as extreme social withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When those types of cases arise, Patel calls a psychologist for a second opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these drugs are generally considered safe, they do come with a risk of side effects that can include dizziness, sedation, stiffness and decreased mobility. Those symptoms might be no big deal for someone living in a house, but for someone on the street, could be catastrophic, said Dr. Shayan Rab, a street psychiatrist with Los Angeles County’s Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement team. It could make someone more vulnerable to being attacked or robbed, or prevent them from accessing food or shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very serious kind of action that’s being taken and a lot of time needs to be spent before you say, ‘Hey, this individual is safe for a long-acting injection,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make sure a patient doesn’t have an adverse reaction, doctors typically give them an oral dose of the same medication for a few days before administering the shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989540\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/053124-Bakersfield-Injectable-LV_20-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Abilify Maintena shot being prepared by the Akido street medicine team at their main office in Bakersfield on May 28, 2024. Street medicine teams throughout California are increasingly using long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication to stabilize the mental health of people living in homeless encampments. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s also a risk that after a street doctor gives someone a shot, that patient could later get sent to the hospital on a temporary psychiatric hold. Doctors there might not know the patient already has a long-acting dose of antipsychotic medication in their body, and might give them another dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before giving someone a shot, Dr. Aislinn Bird wants to be 100% sure their symptoms are actually caused by psychotic disorder, such as schizophrenia, and not complex PTSD, major depressive disorder, methamphetamine use, or something else. Overdiagnosis of psychotic disorders is rampant, especially in the African American community, Bird said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be sure you really know the correct diagnosis,” said Bird, who serves as director of Integrated Care at Health Care for the Homeless in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dr. Susan Partovi, who practices street medicine on Skid Row in Los Angeles, said that’s an “antiquated way of thinking.” When someone is experiencing psychosis, it’s an emergency that needs to be treated as soon as possible, no matter the cause, she said. Her preference is to treat the symptoms first, and then see if the patient wants to work on other issues, such as substance use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antipsychotic injectables, such as Abilify and Invega, tend to be most prevalent in street medicine practices. But street doctors also administer long-acting injectable HIV medication, as well as medication for addiction such as Vivitrol — an injectable, long-acting medication that can help reduce cravings for opioids and alcohol, and protect against overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-silencing-the-voices-in-his-head\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Silencing the voices in his head\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Fonseca Jr., who goes by “Ricky,” has been homeless for two years, living in a tent behind a Dollar Tree, then in a park in rural Kern County. The 31-year-old said he was working as a welder until he had a sudden mental breakdown and started hearing voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The voices said horrible things to him. Sometimes they yelled, and he yelled back, scaring those around him. He used methamphetamine to cope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was getting to the point where I just felt like killing myself,” Fonseca said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months ago, Fonseca started taking a monthly shot of the antipsychotic drug Abilify. Since then, “everything’s changed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Fonseca is staying at a friend’s house and considering going to school. He says he’s stopped using meth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can finally hear the birds and the crickets,” he said. “I couldn’t hear them before.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11989515/how-shots-instead-of-pills-could-change-californias-homeless-crisis","authors":["byline_news_11989515"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_31336","news_22903","news_4020","news_2109"],"featImg":"news_11989536","label":"source_news_11989515"},"news_11988917":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988917","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988917","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"heavy-metal-influences-this-california-composer-a-riverside-hidden-gem-santa-cruz-company-3d-printing-surfboards","title":"Heavy Metal Influences This California Composer; A Riverside Hidden Gem; Santa Cruz Company 3D Printing Surfboards","publishDate":1717786846,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Heavy Metal Influences This California Composer; A Riverside Hidden Gem; Santa Cruz Company 3D Printing Surfboards | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca class=\"c-link c-message_attachment__title_link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989196/heavy-classical-how-composer-jens-ibsen-is-shaking-up-the-classical-music-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-qa=\"message_attachment_title_link\">\u003cspan dir=\"auto\">Metal Symphony: How Bay Area Composer Jens Ibsen Is Shaking up the Classical Music World | KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jens Ibsen is a dynamic young composer putting his spin on classical music, infusing it with prog rock, heavy metal and Japanese video music. Isben’s bold and non-traditional style is getting a lot of attention from major institutions like the San Francisco Symphony. But it hasn’t been easy. He has had to confront racism as he found his unique place in classical music. He’s a lot of different things at once, and you can see that reflected not just in his music but also in who he is as a person. Reporter Jessica Kariisa’s profile of Jens Ibsen is the first in our series celebrating California composers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988955/tios-tacos-a-30-year-journey-of-authentic-mexican-cuisine-and-recycled-art\">Tio’s Tacos, a 30-Year Journey of Authentic Mexican Cuisine and Recycled Art\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s practically impossible to miss the entrance to Tio’s Tacos in Riverside. Just drive off the 91 freeway onto Mission Inn Avenue and stop when you see a huge orange butterfly hanging off the side of a building. You’ll see the airplane parked on the roof and two giants made from recycled aluminum cans taller than the building behind them. This Mexican restaurant/sculpture garden is an immigrant entrepreneur’s labor of love. For our series Hidden Gems, KQED’s Daniel Eduardo Hernandez takes a trip back to his hometown to meet the owner and creator of the Tio’s Tacos wonderland.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Santa Cruz Company 3D Prints Surfboards Crafted from Recycled Hospital Trays\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz has played a big role in surfing history – it’s where Hawaiian princes first introduced the sport to California back in 1885, and where surfers began using wetsuits in the 1950s. Since then, the city has been on the cutting edge of a lot of modern surf technology. A new company there is hoping to build on that history and help the sport become more environmentally friendly – by using a 3D printer to create surfboards made from recycled hospital trays. 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He was a member of several radical groups before joining and arming the Panthers, whose members received international notoriety for brandishing weapons during patrols of the Oakland police and a protest at the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki went on to work for 25 years as a teacher, counselor and administrator at the Peralta Community College District, and after his suicide in 2009, he was revered as a fearless radical.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unbeknownst to his fellow activists, Aoki had served as an FBI intelligence informant, covertly filing reports on a wide range of Bay Area political groups, according to the bureau agent who recruited him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agent, Burney Threadgill Jr., recalled that he approached Aoki in the late 1950s, about the time Aoki was graduating from Berkeley High School. He asked Aoki if he would join left-wing groups and report to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my informant. I developed him,” Threadgill said in an interview. “He was one of the best sources we had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former agent said he asked Aoki how he felt about the Soviet Union, and the young man replied that he had no interest in communism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Well, why don’t you just go to some of the meetings and tell me who’s there and what they talked about?’ Very pleasant little guy. He always wore dark glasses,” Threadgill recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki’s work for the FBI, which has never been reported, was uncovered and verified during research for the book, “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power.” The book, based on research spanning three decades, will be published tomorrow by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tape-recorded interview for the book in 2007, two years before he committed suicide, Aoki was asked if he had been an FBI informant. Aoki’s first response was a long silence. He then replied, “ ‘Oh,’ is all I can say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later during the same interview, Aoki contended the information wasn’t true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if this reporter was mistaken that Aoki had been an informant, Aoki said, “I think you are,” but added: “People change. It is complex. Layer upon layer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the FBI later released records about Aoki in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. A Nov. 16, 1967, intelligence report on the Black Panthers lists Aoki as an “informant” with the code number “T-2.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FBI spokesman declined to comment on Aoki, citing litigation seeking additional records about him under the Freedom of Information Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his death – Aoki shot himself at his Berkeley home after a long illness – his legend has grown. In a 2009 feature-length documentary film, “Aoki,” and a 2012 biography, “Samurai Among Panthers,” he is portrayed as a militant radical leader. Neither mentions that he had worked with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Dong, who was a fellow activist and close friend, said last week that he had never heard that Aoki was an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely something that is shocking to hear,” said Dong, who was the executor of Aoki’s estate. “I mean, that’s a big surprise to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dong recalled that Aoki tended to “compartmentalize” the different parts of his life. Before he shot himself, Dong said, Aoki had laid out in his apartment two neatly pressed uniforms: One was the black leather jacket, beret and dark trousers of the Black Panthers. The other was his U.S. Army regimental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley in the late 1960s, Aoki wore slicked-back hair, sported sunglasses even at night and spoke with a ghetto patois. His fierce demeanor intimidated even his fellow radicals, several of them have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had swagger up to the moon,” former Berkeley activist Victoria Wong recalled at his memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From gangs to the military\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki was born in San Leandro in 1938, the first of two sons. He was 4 when his family was interned at Topaz, Utah, with thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, Aoki grew up in West Oakland, in an area that had been known as Little Yokohama before becoming a low-income black community. He joined a gang and became a tough street fighter who as an adult would boast, “I was the baddest Oriental come out of West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shoplifted, burgled homes and stole car parts for “the midnight auto supply business,” he told Berkeley’s KPFA radio in a 2006 interview. Oakland police repeatedly arrested him for “mostly petty-type stuff,” he said in the 2007 interview. Still, he graduated from Herbert Hoover Junior High School as co-valedictorian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the internment during World War II had shattered his family, Aoki had said. His father became a gangster and abandoned his family, and his mother won custody of her sons and moved them to Berkeley. Aoki did well academically at Berkeley High School and became president of the Stamp and Coin Club. However, he assaulted another student in the hallway and, as he recalled, “beat him half to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after graduating from high school in January 1957, Aoki reported for duty at Fort Ord, near Monterey. He had enlisted in the U.S. Army the prior year, at age 17. He acknowledged in the 2007 interview that he had “cut a deal” in which military authorities arranged for his criminal record to be sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki said he had hoped to become the army’s first Asian American general, but he served only about a year on active duty and seven more in the reserves before being honorably discharged as a sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he saw no combat, he became a firearms expert. “I got to play with all the toys I wanted to play with when I was growing up,” he told KPFA. “Pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being in the reserves left Aoki a lot of free time, and he became deeply involved in left-wing political organizations at the behest of the FBI, retired FBI agent Threadgill said during a series of interviews before his death in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The activities that he got involved in was because of us using him as an informant,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill recalled that he first approached Aoki after a bureau wiretap on the home phone of Saul and Billie Wachter, local members of the Communist Party, picked up Aoki talking to fellow Berkeley High classmate Doug Wachter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Aoki gathered information about the Communist Party, Threadgill said. But Aoki soon focused on the Socialist Workers Party and its youth affiliate, the Young Socialist Alliance, also targets of an intensive FBI domestic security investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By spring 1962, Aoki had been elected to the Berkeley Young Socialist Alliance’s executive council, FBI records show. That December, he became a member of the Oakland-Berkeley branch of the Socialist Workers Party, where he served as the representative to Bay Area civil rights groups. He also was on the steering committee of the Committee to Uphold the Right to Travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, Aoki joined the Vietnam Day Committee, an influential anti-war group based in Berkeley, and worked on its international committee as liaison to foreign anti-war activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All along, Aoki met regularly with his FBI handler. Aoki also filed reports by phone, Threadgill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d call him and say, ‘When do you want to get together?’ ” Threadgill recalled. “I’d say, ‘I’ll meet you on the street corner at so-and-so and so on.’ I would park a couple of blocks away and get out and go and sit down and talk to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arming the Black Panthers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill worked with Aoki through mid-1965, when he moved to another FBI office and turned Aoki over to a fellow agent. Aoki was well positioned to inform on a wide range of political activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki attended Merritt College in Oakland, where he met Huey Newton, a pre-law student, and Bobby Seale, an engineering student, who were in a political group called the Soul Students Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fall 1966, Aoki transferred to UC Berkeley as a junior in sociology. That October, Seale and Newton took a draft of their 10-point program for what would become the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense to Aoki’s Berkeley apartment and discussed it over drinks. The platform called for improved housing, education, full employment, the release of incarcerated black men, a halt to “the robbery by the capitalists of our black community” and an “immediate end to police brutality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Aoki gave the Panthers some of their first guns. As Seale recalled in his memoir, “Seize the Time:”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Late in November 1966, we went to a Third World brother we knew, a Japanese radical cat. He had guns … .357 Magnums, 22’s, 9mm’s, what have you. … We told him that if he was a real revolutionary he better go on and give them up to us because we needed them now to begin educating the people to wage a revolutionary struggle. So he gave us an M-1 and a 9mm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, Aoki joined the Black Panther Party and gave them more guns, Seale wrote. Aoki also gave Panther recruits weapons training, he said in the 2007 interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a little collection, and Bobby and Huey knew about it, and so when the party was formed, I decided to turn it over to the group,” Aoki said in the interview. “And so when you see the guys out there marching and everything, I’m somewhat responsible for the military slant to the organization’s public image.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, the Panthers displayed guns during their “community patrols” of Oakland police and also that May 2, when they visited the state Legislature to protest a bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although carrying weapons was legal at the time, there is little doubt their presence contributed to fatal confrontations between the Panthers and the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 28, 1967, Newton was in a shootout that wounded Oakland Officer Herbert Heanes and killed Officer John Frey. On April 6, 1968, Eldridge Cleaver and five other Panthers were involved in a firefight with Oakland police. Cleaver and two officers were wounded, and Panther Bobby Hutton was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the period Aoki was arming the Panthers, he also was informing for the FBI. The FBI report that lists him as informant T-2 says that in May 1967, he reported on the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the released FBI reports mention that Aoki gave guns to the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FBI’s reliance on informants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>M. Wesley Swearingen, a retired FBI agent who has criticized unlawful bureau surveillance activities under the late Director J. Edgar Hoover, reviewed some of those records. He concluded in a sworn declaration – filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records on Aoki – that Aoki had been an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen served in the FBI from 1951 to 1977, and worked on a squad that investigated the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone like Aoki is perfect to be in a Black Panther Party, because I understand he is Japanese,” he said. “Hey, nobody is going to guess – he’s in the Black Panther Party; nobody is going to guess that he might be an informant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen also said the FBI certainly must have additional records concerning Aoki, including special informant files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aoki wouldn't even have to be a member of the party. If he just knew Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, if he went out to lunch with them every day, they would have a main file,” he said. “But to say they don’t have a main file is ludicrous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, testimony from Swearingen helped to vacate the murder conviction of Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, a Black Panther leader in Los Angeles. Evidence showed that the FBI and Los Angeles Police Department had failed to disclose that a key witness against Pratt was a longtime FBI informant named Julius C. Butler. Pratt later won a civil suit for wrongful imprisonment, with the City of Los Angles paying Pratt $2.75 million and the FBI paying him $1.75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the late ’60s and early ’70s, the FBI sought to disrupt and “neutralize” the Black Panthers under COINTELPRO, the bureau’s secret counterintelligence program to stifle dissent, according to reports by the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of COINTELPRO, the committee found, the FBI used informants to gather intelligence leading to the weapons arrests of Panthers in Chicago, Detroit, San Diego and Washington. By the end of 1969, at least 28 Panthers had been killed in gunfights with police and many more arrested on weapons charges, according to news accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover declared in late 1968 that the Panthers, who by now had chapters across the nation, posed “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” He cited their radical philosophy and armed confrontations with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Aoki later would boast of his role with the Panthers, he was secretive about his relations with them at the time, explaining in the 2007 interview that he feared being expelled from UC Berkeley if his activities were known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1969, Aoki emerged as a leader of the Third World Liberation Front strike at UC Berkeley, which demanded more ethnic studies courses. He advocated violent tactics, according to interviews with him and Manuel Delgado, another strike leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of students and police were injured during the three-month confrontation, which became the campus’s most violent strike to date. Gov. Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency and sent the National Guard to quell the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a memorial service for Aoki at Wheeler Hall in May 2009, Seale, of the Black Panthers, and other activists hailed Aoki as a “fearless leader and servant of the people.” In a phone conversation last week, Seale expressed surprise at hearing that Aoki was an informant and declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Seth Rosenfeld was an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle and has won the George Polk Award and other journalism honors. He can be reached at \u003ca href=\"mailto:seth@sethrosenfeld.com\">seth@sethrosenfeld.com\u003c/a>. This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.cironline.org\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"73557 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=73557","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/20/man-who-armed-black-panthers-was-fbi-informant-records-show/","stats":{"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":2586,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":68},"modified":1454456619,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"The man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training – which preceded fatal shootouts with Oakland police in the turbulent 1960s – was an undercover FBI informer, according to a former bureau agent and an FBI report. 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He was a member of several radical groups before joining and arming the Panthers, whose members received international notoriety for brandishing weapons during patrols of the Oakland police and a protest at the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki went on to work for 25 years as a teacher, counselor and administrator at the Peralta Community College District, and after his suicide in 2009, he was revered as a fearless radical.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unbeknownst to his fellow activists, Aoki had served as an FBI intelligence informant, covertly filing reports on a wide range of Bay Area political groups, according to the bureau agent who recruited him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agent, Burney Threadgill Jr., recalled that he approached Aoki in the late 1950s, about the time Aoki was graduating from Berkeley High School. He asked Aoki if he would join left-wing groups and report to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my informant. I developed him,” Threadgill said in an interview. “He was one of the best sources we had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former agent said he asked Aoki how he felt about the Soviet Union, and the young man replied that he had no interest in communism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Well, why don’t you just go to some of the meetings and tell me who’s there and what they talked about?’ Very pleasant little guy. He always wore dark glasses,” Threadgill recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki’s work for the FBI, which has never been reported, was uncovered and verified during research for the book, “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power.” The book, based on research spanning three decades, will be published tomorrow by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tape-recorded interview for the book in 2007, two years before he committed suicide, Aoki was asked if he had been an FBI informant. Aoki’s first response was a long silence. He then replied, “ ‘Oh,’ is all I can say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later during the same interview, Aoki contended the information wasn’t true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if this reporter was mistaken that Aoki had been an informant, Aoki said, “I think you are,” but added: “People change. It is complex. Layer upon layer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the FBI later released records about Aoki in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. A Nov. 16, 1967, intelligence report on the Black Panthers lists Aoki as an “informant” with the code number “T-2.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FBI spokesman declined to comment on Aoki, citing litigation seeking additional records about him under the Freedom of Information Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his death – Aoki shot himself at his Berkeley home after a long illness – his legend has grown. In a 2009 feature-length documentary film, “Aoki,” and a 2012 biography, “Samurai Among Panthers,” he is portrayed as a militant radical leader. Neither mentions that he had worked with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Dong, who was a fellow activist and close friend, said last week that he had never heard that Aoki was an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely something that is shocking to hear,” said Dong, who was the executor of Aoki’s estate. “I mean, that’s a big surprise to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dong recalled that Aoki tended to “compartmentalize” the different parts of his life. Before he shot himself, Dong said, Aoki had laid out in his apartment two neatly pressed uniforms: One was the black leather jacket, beret and dark trousers of the Black Panthers. The other was his U.S. Army regimental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley in the late 1960s, Aoki wore slicked-back hair, sported sunglasses even at night and spoke with a ghetto patois. His fierce demeanor intimidated even his fellow radicals, several of them have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had swagger up to the moon,” former Berkeley activist Victoria Wong recalled at his memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From gangs to the military\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki was born in San Leandro in 1938, the first of two sons. He was 4 when his family was interned at Topaz, Utah, with thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, Aoki grew up in West Oakland, in an area that had been known as Little Yokohama before becoming a low-income black community. He joined a gang and became a tough street fighter who as an adult would boast, “I was the baddest Oriental come out of West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shoplifted, burgled homes and stole car parts for “the midnight auto supply business,” he told Berkeley’s KPFA radio in a 2006 interview. Oakland police repeatedly arrested him for “mostly petty-type stuff,” he said in the 2007 interview. Still, he graduated from Herbert Hoover Junior High School as co-valedictorian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the internment during World War II had shattered his family, Aoki had said. His father became a gangster and abandoned his family, and his mother won custody of her sons and moved them to Berkeley. Aoki did well academically at Berkeley High School and became president of the Stamp and Coin Club. However, he assaulted another student in the hallway and, as he recalled, “beat him half to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after graduating from high school in January 1957, Aoki reported for duty at Fort Ord, near Monterey. He had enlisted in the U.S. Army the prior year, at age 17. He acknowledged in the 2007 interview that he had “cut a deal” in which military authorities arranged for his criminal record to be sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki said he had hoped to become the army’s first Asian American general, but he served only about a year on active duty and seven more in the reserves before being honorably discharged as a sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he saw no combat, he became a firearms expert. “I got to play with all the toys I wanted to play with when I was growing up,” he told KPFA. “Pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being in the reserves left Aoki a lot of free time, and he became deeply involved in left-wing political organizations at the behest of the FBI, retired FBI agent Threadgill said during a series of interviews before his death in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The activities that he got involved in was because of us using him as an informant,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill recalled that he first approached Aoki after a bureau wiretap on the home phone of Saul and Billie Wachter, local members of the Communist Party, picked up Aoki talking to fellow Berkeley High classmate Doug Wachter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Aoki gathered information about the Communist Party, Threadgill said. But Aoki soon focused on the Socialist Workers Party and its youth affiliate, the Young Socialist Alliance, also targets of an intensive FBI domestic security investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By spring 1962, Aoki had been elected to the Berkeley Young Socialist Alliance’s executive council, FBI records show. That December, he became a member of the Oakland-Berkeley branch of the Socialist Workers Party, where he served as the representative to Bay Area civil rights groups. He also was on the steering committee of the Committee to Uphold the Right to Travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, Aoki joined the Vietnam Day Committee, an influential anti-war group based in Berkeley, and worked on its international committee as liaison to foreign anti-war activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All along, Aoki met regularly with his FBI handler. Aoki also filed reports by phone, Threadgill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d call him and say, ‘When do you want to get together?’ ” Threadgill recalled. “I’d say, ‘I’ll meet you on the street corner at so-and-so and so on.’ I would park a couple of blocks away and get out and go and sit down and talk to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arming the Black Panthers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill worked with Aoki through mid-1965, when he moved to another FBI office and turned Aoki over to a fellow agent. Aoki was well positioned to inform on a wide range of political activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki attended Merritt College in Oakland, where he met Huey Newton, a pre-law student, and Bobby Seale, an engineering student, who were in a political group called the Soul Students Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fall 1966, Aoki transferred to UC Berkeley as a junior in sociology. That October, Seale and Newton took a draft of their 10-point program for what would become the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense to Aoki’s Berkeley apartment and discussed it over drinks. The platform called for improved housing, education, full employment, the release of incarcerated black men, a halt to “the robbery by the capitalists of our black community” and an “immediate end to police brutality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Aoki gave the Panthers some of their first guns. As Seale recalled in his memoir, “Seize the Time:”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Late in November 1966, we went to a Third World brother we knew, a Japanese radical cat. He had guns … .357 Magnums, 22’s, 9mm’s, what have you. … We told him that if he was a real revolutionary he better go on and give them up to us because we needed them now to begin educating the people to wage a revolutionary struggle. So he gave us an M-1 and a 9mm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, Aoki joined the Black Panther Party and gave them more guns, Seale wrote. Aoki also gave Panther recruits weapons training, he said in the 2007 interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a little collection, and Bobby and Huey knew about it, and so when the party was formed, I decided to turn it over to the group,” Aoki said in the interview. “And so when you see the guys out there marching and everything, I’m somewhat responsible for the military slant to the organization’s public image.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, the Panthers displayed guns during their “community patrols” of Oakland police and also that May 2, when they visited the state Legislature to protest a bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although carrying weapons was legal at the time, there is little doubt their presence contributed to fatal confrontations between the Panthers and the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 28, 1967, Newton was in a shootout that wounded Oakland Officer Herbert Heanes and killed Officer John Frey. On April 6, 1968, Eldridge Cleaver and five other Panthers were involved in a firefight with Oakland police. Cleaver and two officers were wounded, and Panther Bobby Hutton was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the period Aoki was arming the Panthers, he also was informing for the FBI. The FBI report that lists him as informant T-2 says that in May 1967, he reported on the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the released FBI reports mention that Aoki gave guns to the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FBI’s reliance on informants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>M. Wesley Swearingen, a retired FBI agent who has criticized unlawful bureau surveillance activities under the late Director J. Edgar Hoover, reviewed some of those records. He concluded in a sworn declaration – filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records on Aoki – that Aoki had been an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen served in the FBI from 1951 to 1977, and worked on a squad that investigated the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone like Aoki is perfect to be in a Black Panther Party, because I understand he is Japanese,” he said. “Hey, nobody is going to guess – he’s in the Black Panther Party; nobody is going to guess that he might be an informant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen also said the FBI certainly must have additional records concerning Aoki, including special informant files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aoki wouldn't even have to be a member of the party. If he just knew Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, if he went out to lunch with them every day, they would have a main file,” he said. “But to say they don’t have a main file is ludicrous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, testimony from Swearingen helped to vacate the murder conviction of Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, a Black Panther leader in Los Angeles. Evidence showed that the FBI and Los Angeles Police Department had failed to disclose that a key witness against Pratt was a longtime FBI informant named Julius C. Butler. 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By the end of 1969, at least 28 Panthers had been killed in gunfights with police and many more arrested on weapons charges, according to news accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover declared in late 1968 that the Panthers, who by now had chapters across the nation, posed “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” He cited their radical philosophy and armed confrontations with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Aoki later would boast of his role with the Panthers, he was secretive about his relations with them at the time, explaining in the 2007 interview that he feared being expelled from UC Berkeley if his activities were known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1969, Aoki emerged as a leader of the Third World Liberation Front strike at UC Berkeley, which demanded more ethnic studies courses. 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