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How we investigated San Jose police use of force against the mentally impaired

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:05 GMT

To analyze San Jose police officers’ use of force against the mentally impaired, journalists for the Bay Area News Group and the California Reporting Project, working with students from Stanford University and UC Berkeley, reviewed thousands of pages of police records released under California’s 2018 police transparency law, SB 1421, and the terms of a 2020 settlement of the news group’s lawsuit against the city of San Jose.The analysis includes 106 cases involving 108 individuals who were seriously injured or beaten by police between 2014 and 2021. It combined cases involving police confrontations with mentally ill individuals, with those suffering from drug or alcohol intoxication, and with people acting erratically. Officers are typically trained to handle such situations similarly.The case records do not always contain direct evidence that a subject of force had been diagnosed as mentally ill – or demonstrated to be intoxicated through blood or other tests.   Instead, the journa...

Losing control: When San Jose police confront people in mental health crisis, why do they end up hurting them so often?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:05 GMT

Twice in a two-month span, a fragile, self-destructive Thompson “Tommy” Nguyen encountered San Jose police officers trained to deal with people in a mental health crisis. The first time, Nguyen’s family worried the officers might hurt Nguyen, and sent them away.The second time, police killed him.Tensions ran high on an evening in January 2018, as police responded to urgent calls of an armed man menacing a San Jose power plant. Nguyen’s behavior – failing to respond to commands, beseeching cops to “shoot me, kill me” – alerted the officers to his brittle condition, but they could not calm him and never attempted non-lethal force during the eight-minute encounter.Instead, as Nguyen strode toward them, an ax and metal pipe in his hands, two officers fired their guns a total of five times. One of them later told investigators he believed Nguyen was bent on “suicide by cop.” If so, he succeeded.“I knew that if I’m not there and the cops are involved, he’s going to die,&...

Israeli media say death toll from Hamas’ wide-ranging incursion has risen to 600

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:05 GMT

Palestinians ride on an Israeli military vehicle taken by an army base overrun by Hamas militants near the Gaza Strip fence, in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Abu Reash)(AP/Abed Abu Reash) Palestinians ride on an Israeli military vehicle taken by an army base overrun by Hamas militants near the Gaza Strip fence, in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Abu Reash)(AP/Abed Abu Reash) TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Several Israeli media outlets are reporting that the death toll from Hamas’ wide-ranging incursion into Israel has risen to 600. The Kan public broadcaster and Channel 12, as well as the Haaretz and Times of Israel newspapers, reported the toll Sunday. There has been no official con...

Vegas Golden Knights winning the Stanley Cup shows the value of depth at every position

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:05 GMT

Leon Draisaitl acknowledged there was a reason he and the Edmonton Oilers lost to the Vegas Golden Knights in the playoffs last season. Asked what stood about the team that eliminated them and went on to win the Stanley Cup, one thing came to the German star’s mind.“They’re deep,” Draisaitl said. “They have four lines that they can roll against any line out there.”And it wasn’t just depth at forward that helped the Golden Knights finish atop the Western Conference after 82 games and the NHL after four grueling rounds of the postseason. They used 10 defensemen and five different goaltenders along the way, showing the value of depth in hockey at every position, establishing consistency and creating a blueprint for other contenders to follow.“Our team’s a great example of it,” Vegas playoff leading scorer Jack Eichel said. “We were consistent. Our special teams got better. Our goaltending was great. We utilized their depth … and I thought we found our real identity.”I...

Israeli media outlets say the death toll from Hamas’ wide-scale incursion has risen to 600

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:05 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media outlets say the death toll from Hamas’ wide-scale incursion has risen to 600.Source

From Coke floats to Cronuts, going viral can have a lasting effect on a small business

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:05 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The Lexington Candy Shop in New York City has served burgers, fries and shakes to hungry patrons for decades. Last remodeled in 1948, the diner is the definition of old-fashioned.But that hasn’t stopped it from getting a wave of new fans.In August 2022, this old school business met the new world when Nicolas Heller, a TikToker and Instagrammer with 1.2 million followers known as New York Nico, popped in for a traditional Coke float – Coke syrup, soda water and ice cream. Naturally, he took a video. It went viral, garnering 4.8 million likes.“The next day (after the video was posted), the lines started forming at 8 in the morning,” John Philis, the diner’s third-generation co-owner, recalls with amazement. “And it was like, huh!”When a smaller restaurant unexpectedly goes viral on TikTok or other social media, the sudden demand can be overwhelming. Owners have to adapt on the fly, revamping operations to quickly serve a crush of people. But savvy business owners...

Horror en el desierto: asistentes al festival de música escucharon cohetes, luego militantes de Gaza les dispararon y tomaron rehenes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:05 GMT

(CNN) — Los cohetes comenzaron alrededor de las 6:30 am horal local, dijo Tal Gibly a CNN. Treinta minutos más tarde, ella y cientos de personas que asistían a un festival de música israelí corrían mientras militantes de Gaza les disparaban.El aterrador ataque fue sólo uno de los múltiples lugares afectados este sábado por la mañana por el ataque más sostenido y coordinado dentro de Israel jamás llevado a cabo por militantes de Hamas.Los hombres armados dejaron muertos a varios juerguistas en el lugar, mientras que varios asistentes fueron tomados como rehenes, como se ve en videos de las redes sociales siendo incautados por sus captores armados.Se suponía que el evento al aire libre del Festival Nova en una zona rural de cultivo cerca de la frontera entre Gaza e Israel sería una fiesta de baile que duraría toda la noche, celebrando la festividad judía de Sucot. Pero cuando amaneció, Gibly dijo que comenzaron a escuchar sirenas y cohetes.“Ni siquiera teníamos ningún luga...

Se forma el potencial ciclón tropical 16-E en el Pacífico

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:05 GMT

MIAMI, Florida – En las últimas horas se formó el potencial ciclón tropical 16-E en el pacífico, con vientos de hasta 30 mph, y podría convertirse en una tormenta en las próximas horas, según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC, por sus siglas en inglés). De acuerdo con el boletín de las. 7 am CT, de este domingo, el ciclón se encontraba a 210 millas de Zihuatanejo, México. Tenía vientos máximos sostenidos de 30 mph, y se movía en dirección noroeste a 5 mph.AVISOS, VIGILANCIAS Y ADVERTENCIAS VIGENTESUna vigilancia de tormenta tropical está vigente para Acapulco hasta la Punta San Telmo.Se espera que el ciclón se convierta en una tormenta tropical en las próximas horas. Cómo se forman los huracanes y cuáles son los dos ingredientes claves que necesitan Depresión, tormenta tropical y huracán: ¿en qué se diferencian? ASÍ VA LA TEMPORADA EN EL PACÍFICOLa tormenta tropical Calvin se había formado en julio en el Pacífi...

Wales digesting loss of world-class Faletau with Rugby World Cup quarterfinals looming

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:05 GMT

NANTES, France (AP) — The irreplaceable will have to be replaced by Wales after the major setback of losing No. 8 Taulupe Faletau to a broken arm at the Rugby World Cup.Faletau was injured on Saturday, late in the 43-19 win over Georgia in Nantes that gave Wales a four-win sweep of Pool C.Faletau was the only specialist No. 8 in the squad, although Aaron Wainwright, Taine Basham and co-captain Jac Morgan have played in that position for Wales.Wales was still considering on Sunday an injury replacement, whether a back-rower or another position with the quarterfinals looming next weekend. Also injured in the squad were the leading flyhalves Dan Biggar and Gareth Anscombe, but Wales was still digesting the blow of losing its only world-class player.“You can’t replace what Toby (Faletau) gives, in terms of his intelligence and what he does, how he always turns up at the right place and makes the right decision at the right time,” Wales assistant coach David Humphreys said on Sunda...

Terence Davies, filmmaker of the lyrical ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives,’ dies at the age of 77

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:05 GMT

LONDON (AP) — British filmmaker Terence Davies, best known for a pair of powerful, lyrical movies inspired by his childhood in postwar Liverpool, has died at the age of 77.Davies’ manager John Taylor said the director died “peacefully at home in his sleep” on Saturday after a short illness.Raised in a large working-class Roman Catholic family in the English port city, Davies worked as a clerk in a shipping office and a bookkeeper in an accountancy firm before enrolling at a drama school in the city of Coventry and later the National Film School.After making several short films, Davies made his feature debut as writer-director in 1988 with “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” a dreamlike — sometimes nightmarish — collage of a film that evoked a childhood of poverty and violence leavened by music and movie magic. The film won the Cannes International Critics Prize in 1988, and in 2002 was voted the ninth-best film of the past 25 years by British film critics.Davies followed it in 1992 with ...