This analysis of San Jose police use of force on mentally impaired people involved examining thousands of pages of records and body-camera footage, and creating a proprietary database. Two-dozen Stanford and Berkeley grad students contributed. Please give it a read. @mercnews
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Randall Keith
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Managing Editor - Digital (Retired)


Woman killed when her SUV crashes into building in San Jose bayareane.ws/3GuYHVx

When COVID arrived in the Bay Area, shelter-in-place was supposed to protect Latinos. It didn’t. It may have made things worse. An investigation from The Mercury News found why the people most at risk of the new virus were left with the least protection. mercurynews.com/2021/03/14/how…
With President Trump and others sounding the alarm about mail-in voting, we decided to take a close look at what happens to your California ballot once you drop it in the mail. This is the journey of a California ballot. youtu.be/9HBL-MjtGVs #Election2020 #Vote #MailInBallot


@KPIXtv reporter just detained but they let her go

Help us track press freedom violations across the US during ongoing #GeorgeFloyd protests! We are publicly sharing our tracking document so you can help us log attacks on reporters in real time. Comment in the doc to alert us to more cases as they happen. #gid=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…



Another reporter and I were brought down by cops, told to put our faces to the ground and threatened with a baton — even after we told them we were with the media, which is allegedly exempt from San Jose’s curfew order @sliccardo @sjpdchief @SanJosePD @FreedomofPress @mercnews
