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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.”
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1of5Michael Rains, represents many police officers, including the former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle. Here he is in his office on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Pleasant Hill, Calif.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of5Michael Rains, represents many police officers, including the former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle. Here he is in his office on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Pleasant Hill, Calif.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
3of5Michael Rains, represents many police officers, including the former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle. Here he is in his office on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Pleasant Hill, Calif.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less