Demian Bulwa

Sep 1, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Michael Cabanatuan |Demian Bulwa |Aidin Vaziri

The mother of San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall, who was shot in an attempted robbery Saturday afternoon in the city’s Union Square shopping district, said the gunman’s bullet went through the right side of her son’s chest and out his back without striking any vital organs. “I want to thank GOD for protecting my baby boy,” Erin Pearsall wrote on Facebook Saturday, asking for prayers in a post she later deleted. “He is extremely lucky, GOD shielded him.

Aug 29, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Sophia Bollag |Demian Bulwa

One officer groped a sleeping woman while off duty. Another was accused of taking advantage of a domestic violence victim he met while on duty. California has finally begun to release details about why some police officers have been permanently stripped of their powers under a landmark law passed three years ago in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

Aug 4, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Demian Bulwa

Apparently seeking to blunt the impact of a forthcoming New Yorker article, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released a bizarre video Sunday admitting that, a decade ago, he dumped a dead bear cub in New York City’s Central Park and staged the scene to look like a bicyclist had run over the animal.

Jun 7, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Demian Bulwa

Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman has been officially barred from serving as a peace officer in California, nearly three decades after his infamous court testimony weakened the prosecution’s murder case against O.J. Simpson. California’s Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training began moving to “decertify” officers last year under a new reform law meant to rebuild the public’s trust with police.

May 18, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Demian Bulwa

The former director of logistics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey has been accused of a massive embezzlement scheme. Federal prosecutors say Zelene Charles, 42, spent upward of three years stealing more than $600,000 from the school and the nearby Defense Language Institute, plus a cache of Apple MacBooks and iPads. Charles, who lives in East Garrison in Monterey County, was charged Friday with felony counts of theft of government property and wire fraud, records show.