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Kathleen Bils in her home in the North Park neighborhood in San Diego, California on May 1, 2021. May 1st is exactly one year since Bils son Nicholas Nicky was shot and killed by a San Diego County Sheriff s Deputy after escaping a park ranger truck in handcuffs outside the county jail. Nicky was mentally ill, Bils said that her son was afraid of the police. He was 36 years old when he died.
Cases in San Diego and San Leandro will test the stricter standards on when officers can shoot to kill. Training of officers on the new law is inconsistent.
On opposite ends of California, two women who have never met are united by grief and purpose.
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On opposite ends of California, two women who have never met are united by grief and purpose.
This month, Kathleen Bils laid a memorial stone in a flower bed on the San Diego street where a sheriff’s deputy shot her son one year earlier. Some 500 miles north, at a marina on the eastern edge of San Francisco Bay, Addie Kitchen recently held a memorial in the city where a police officer killed her grandson.
“I want people to understand that our children are important to us and that we want justice,” said Kitchen, a retired prison guard. “We want the officers to be held accountable.”
SACRAMENTO
Despite weeks of street protests over the killing of George Floyd and California’s reputation for progressive politics, a series of major police reforms proposed in Sacramento largely fizzled in 2020.
Backers hoped to have more success in 2021, with the pandemic waning, legislators spending more time on the issue and momentum building to address inequities in policing.
But police reform is hitting hard times again this year, including a plan common in other states to oust bad cops.
Across the nation, 46 states have rules preventing abusive officers from jumping jobs, furthering their careers by switching agencies even after they’ve committed serious misconduct or been fired. California is not one of them but a proposed law to change that is facing unexpectedly fierce opposition at the Capitol.
Despite weeks of street protests over the killing of George Floyd and California s reputation for progressive politics, a series of major police reforms proposed in Sacramento largely fizzled in 2020.
Backers hoped to have more success in 2021, with the pandemic waning, legislators spending more time on the issue and momentum building to address inequities in policing.
But police reform is hitting hard times again this year, including a plan common in other states to oust bad cops.
Across the nation, 46 states have rules preventing abusive officers from jumping jobs, furthering their careers by switching agencies even after they ve committed serious misconduct or been fired. California is not one of them â but a proposed law to change that is facing unexpectedly fierce opposition at the Capitol.
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