San Diego police and sheriff's officials shared data in response to public records requests filed by the Rev. Shane Harris and separate requests by the Union-Tribune
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It’s hard to miss.
Along city sidewalks in downtown San Diego, in front of malls in Oceanside, sprawled across open areas near South Bay freeway on-ramps, homeless encampments have become a more frequent sight throughout San Diego County in recent months.
Why there are more, or even if the large encampments mean the homeless population itself has increased, is unclear.
The numbers of people on the street could be greater because fewer people have been arrested and jailed for minor offenses during the pandemic. Or maybe people from other states are moving to San Diego after hearing about shelters and services here.
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On Friday morning, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging four former Minneapolis police officers with violating the civil rights of George Floyd, whose death last May set off months of nationwide protests.
Among the charges in the indictment is an allegation that two of the former officers, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, violated Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure because they did not intervene to stop their colleague, Derek Chauvin, as he knelt on Floyd’s neck.
While those federal charges are separate from state laws Kueng, Thao and the fourth officer, Thomas Lane, are slated to go on trial in August on state charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter the duty to intervene when a fellow officer uses excessive force is one that’s mandatory for California law enforcement officers.