It’s an important thing we need to pay attention to. ![]() I don’t know that we’re educating kids in our schools. You might not realize at the end of the day that it’s a depressant they’re using and abusing. It always strikes me odd that alcohol is a depressant because it loses your inhibitions, and mostly, you see people acting silly. And I think people don’t think of the consequences. It’s easy, accessible and liquor’s cheap. ![]() We have a lot of repeat offenders, but I don’t think people realize the danger of alcohol abuse. I wish I knew why, but I think it’s people not thinking they’re impaired when they are. (2) What crimes are most often prosecuted by the D.A.’s office? Updated to include drought zones while tracking water shortage status of your area, plus reservoir levels and a list of restrictions for the Bay Area’s largest water districts. We need to make sure we’re doing the right thing and we’re going to be speaking with the public defender’s office on these cases, documenting how many times we take into account a person’s immigration status and the consequences. And the immigration laws are so complicated, depending on what your status is, that different rulings can jeopardize somebody’s status. There are so many people with even 20- to 30-year-old cases that are coming back to put people in jeopardy. I want a position of leadership in our office. We need to be out there, and we need to have our investigators and advocates out there, going to cultural and immigrant rights events. There’s lots of fear in our immigrant community. (1) What changes do you plan to make to the D.A.’s office? Two questions with Lori Frugoli, Marin County’s new district attorney Jones and her son, her attorneys said, “were unlawfully discriminated against because of their race.” Lori Frugoli was elected district attorney of Marin County in 2018, after working 27 years in the office as a deputy district attorney. The suit names the Police Department and Castro as defendants along with the city, and it alleges violations of the 14th Amendment. The two hid under the bed as bullets crashed through the windows for 40 minutes, the suit states, before police ultimately killed the gunman.Īt a community meeting at Jones’ home a few days later, Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said the city and police “dropped the ball” and that “mistakes were made” leading up to the final shooting. 17, Enjaian opened fire on Jones’ home while she and her son were inside. She said she feared for her life because Enjaian knew she had spoken to police, but Castro assured Jones that an arrest was imminent, the suit states.įinally on Feb. 15 at Oakland police headquarters to speak about all three incidents. ![]() Jones said she met with Officer Harold Castro on Feb. After police arrived, Reddic was the only one detained. As Reddic fled, the suit states, he mistakenly approached Enjaian and begged for help.Įnjaian yelled at Reddic to “get the f- away from my door” and used a racial slur, according to the lawsuit. Enjaian was reportedly firing a gun at a parked car where a homeless man, Patrick Reddic, was sleeping. The next day, Jones said, she again heard cracking noises outsider her home. When she opened her front door, Jones witnessed Enjaian standing outside “wearing safety glasses and ear muffs and firing a long wooden-handled rifle aimed at oncoming traffic.” 13, when she heard “cracking noises” outside her residence. Jones describes a second encounter on Feb. “The officers did not question or arrest Jesse Enjaian,” the suit states. Jones said Enjaian twice witnessed her speaking to police and that police failed to take him into custody after he refused to speak to them. 11, 2017, after he shot out the windows of a parked vehicle near her home the previous evening. Jones, who lived with her son on the 9500 block of Las Vegas Avenue, described one encounter with Enjaian on Feb.
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