Lisa Pickoff-White
California Reporting Project Director of Research. Former KQED, geek, b-movie lover, she/her. Signal user.
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May 17, 2024 |
kpbs.org | Emily Zentner |Lisa Pickoff-White
A former San Diego County Sheriff Department deputy who fatally shot an unarmed man outside the downtown San Diego jail over four years ago was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that could send him to prison for life, it was announced Friday. Aaron Russell was charged in the indictment with depriving Nicholas Bils of his right to be free from officers using excessive force and discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, according to the Department of Justice.
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Apr 11, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Emily Zentner |Lisa Pickoff-White
The city of Stockton, California, has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Shayne Sutherland, a 29-year-old who died after being held face down by police officers in 2020, for $6m, the family’s attorneys announced Thursday. Sutherland’s mother, Karen Sutherland, said that nothing can replace her son, but that the settlement feels like an acknowledgement of responsibility from Stockton police, which she had been hoping for.
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Feb 27, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Emily Zentner |Lisa Pickoff-White
On a Thursday morning in October 2020, less than five months after George Floyd was held on his stomach by Minneapolis police officers until he died, Shayne Sutherland called 911 from a convenience store in Stockton, California, and asked for a taxi. When the operator told Sutherland he’d dialed 911, he said someone was trying to rob him. Stockton police officers Ronald Zalunardo and John Afanasiev arrived at the store about 15 minutes later.
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Sep 20, 2022 |
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen |Joshua Benton |Lisa Pickoff-White
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Sep 19, 2022 |
niemanlab.org | Lisa Pickoff-White |Richard J. Tofel
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RT @emilymzentner: 1/ Since the 1990s, medical & law enforcement experts have warned that restraining people facedown — called prone restra…
✨Some personal news ✨ Today is my first day as the California Reporting Project’s Director of Research. Our collaboration has FOIAed reports on police violence and misconduct in the Golden State since 2019. https://t.co/ZpdPB0WGNc
RT @omarsrashad: Three months after our @fresnoland investigation into whether Fresno's budget process may have been violating California's…