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SF's Eviction Moratorium is Staying in Place, Even as Covid Orders Expire
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Qualified Immunity Is Burning a Hole in the Constitution
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Police officers’ go-to defense against civil suits allows them to violate the Constitution with impunity.Rachel assisted as local counsel on this case - Dami Animshaun did awesome work as the lead attorney. We are very happy that 244 people held without charges in Santa Clara Jail will get some compensation for their ordeal. "The named plaintiff of the class-action lawsuit, Dylan Camarlinghi, was arrested Feb. 9, 2020 ... He was booked at the Main Jail in San Jose and was held in a 40-person barrack, where he says he was denied hygiene supplies and refused to shower or fully use the bathroom for six days because of unsanitary conditions .... He was released on Feb. 14, 2020 — but it wasn’t until a year later that he learned the DA’s office declined to charge him three days earlier, on Feb. 11. “That actual information, the communication of the non-prosecutorial decision, is never told to the person at their release,” Animashaun said. “They don’t tell you why you’re released, they don’t tell you we’re releasing you three days after the DA dropped the case.” ... See MoreSee Less

Santa Clara County: $2.4 million settles class-action lawsuit from uncharged people kept in jail
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Plaintiffs claimed that scores of people were held for days after the district attorney’s office declined to prosecute them.
“Nothing will erase the emotional pain and terror I felt on June 1, 2020,” Sears said in a statement released by lead attorney Rachel Lederman. “I grew up with family members who were police officers, including my grandfather . . . but I just don’t feel safe around police as a Black man. I’m hoping this settlement is a small part of achieving some real change.”
An Alameda County sheriff’s deputy shot Sears, 52, in the hip with a “rubber bullet” as he turned to leave when deputies and Oakland police officers began using tear gas to disperse the crowd. A deputy also shot Brown, 22, with a munition after she ran from officers who she said charged her when she washed the eyes of those who had been tear-gassed.
“This was a terrifying experience, Brown said in the same statement. “Just seeing the way that the officers treated unarmed, innocent people was deeply painful. And that fear has never left me. I am pleased that this settlement not only will help Tosh and me but will help the Oakland community be able to continue to speak out against racism and police violence.”
The use of those rubber bullets came on the same day that attorneys sent Oakland police a letter reminding them that in three prior cases, they’d promised not to use “rubber bullets”, “bean bags” and other impact munitions, also known as specialty impact munitions and kinetic energy projectiles, for crowd control.
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Protesters injured at 2020 George Floyd demonstrations in Oakland to split $250,000
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