Three San Luis Obispo protesters agree to misdemeanor diversion
March 11, 2021
Three of the five Black Lives Matter protesters charged with illegal acts during a June 1, 2020 protest in San Luis Obispo were granted misdemeanor diversion this week, which allows them to eventually have their cases dismissed.
On June 1, protesters blocked traffic on Highway 101, and later engaged in a standoff with officers near the police station. The protest allegedly turned violent with agitators throwing water bottles at officers.
Officers responded with pepper spray, tear gas and handcuffs.
The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office filed charges of failing to disperse a riot and resisting or obstructing an officer against Gianna Stoddard, 26, according to the complaint. Henry Popp, 19; Abigail Landis, 22; Michael Gates, 22; and Alexandra Bahramzadehebrahimi, 22, were each charged with one count of failure to disperse a riot or unlawful assembly.
Police arrest suspect wanted in Thomaston murder case
By Brian Hill and FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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THOMASTON, Ga. - Police said a man linked to a deadly December 2020 home invasion is in police custody after he was arrested on unrelated charges.
The Thomaston Police Department said Jakari Daniel, also known as Byrd, was arrested on Saturday night in McIntosh County for multiple drug and weapon charges, separate from his alleged involvement in a Thomaston homicide.
Officials said police will move Daniel to the Upson County Sheriff s Office jail.
Thomaston police had arrested one other suspect, 19-year-old Jordan Jones. His charges include felony murder.
Investigators say 27-year-old Michael Gates was shot and killed when two armed robbers broke into his home. Investigators believe Jakari Daniel is involved.
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An appellate court last week ruled in favor of Tiffany Tabares, the mother of a 27-year-old who was shot and killed by a Huntington Beach Police Department officer outside of a local 7-Eleven in 2017.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Feb. 17 that a jury could find Officer Eric Esparza acted unreasonably when he shot Dillan Tabares seven times on Sept. 22, 2017, across the street from Marina High School.
Additionally, the judges ruled that a reasonable jury could conclude that Esparza should have suspected that Tabares had mental health issues, and that he unreasonably failed to follow police protocol on dealing with potentially mentally ill people before using force.
Huntington Beach loses housing case with state of California
The California flag waves in the breeze as beachgoers enjoy a sunny day near the Huntington Beach Pier on May 23..
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The city of Huntington Beach has lost a lawsuit against the state of California seeking to be exempted from recently passed housing bills, including Senate Bill 35 and SB 1333, and will not appeal the decision.
Huntington Beach’s lawsuit, filed in January 2019, had alleged that the housing laws, specifically SB 35, sought to “create a system where the state controls how, where and when housing is built in every city in California. SB 35 essentially creates unconstitutional authority for the state to ‘rezone’ local land use in a city for its (ill-conceived) political purposes.”