Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM 20160513 : compare

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM 20160513

This video should be shown at every Law Enforcement academy. It is a classic example of how not to handle a stop. Reporter but retired judge Ladoris Cordell was outraged what she saw recorded from a San Leandro Police body camera. It scares me now they can do stuff to you and you have no say so. Reporter douglas is the man who stars in the video. The van he lives in in a 7 eleven parking lot an open beer can outside the passenger door. Officers seem in the video to believe theres probable cause its his. I started getting upset because he kept on trying to make that beer can mine. Reporter he says its not. Officers eventually address him for driving under the influence. Stop resisting im not resisting reporter but not before they dragged him out of the car, give him a chokehold and he goes unconscious for 30 second. He also had a concussion and possibly a pinched nerve. He was also arrested for resisting arrest. Afterwards, it turns out he had guns in the back of the van one loaded. He says he uses it for protection because he is homeless. Do you think you were belligerent . No. Reporter he was very hostile and the officers behaved in a very professional manner according to one person. The video may leave that open to interpretation and the d. A. Has dropped all charges. What legally went awry was the officers who decided that they in my view did not like mr. Babbitts attitude. He cooperated but he wasnt happy about it. Reporter the officers attorney denies that and says nothing the officers did was wrong. But babbitt is glad they wore body cameras. I could be in a whole different situation right now if it wasnt for that. I could probably be in jail for the stuff they make up and they dont take my word for. Reporter babbitt is currently suing the San Leandro Police department and that case is just begun. In the east bay, mike sugerman, kpix 5. Oakland police lead the back when it comes to body cameras on bay area streets with 500 assigned to its officers. San jose and San Francisco are expected to have hundreds of cameras by the summer. Marin county just approved a contract for Sheriffs Department body cameras. Now to a story we broke on kpix 5 news at 5 00. More exclusive details on the sex scandal rocking the oakland Police Department. He will investigators say officers had sex with a minor. Da lin is in oakland. The woman is telling her side of the story on social media. Reporter yeah, liz. She has been outspoken on her Facebook Page admitting to having sex with at least one Police Officer while she was under age. That of course would be a crime. Statutory rape. Sources say the internal Affairs Investigation centers around this girl, celeste who is 18 or 19. Sources say investigators believe celeste had sex with potentially dozens of Police Officers beginning when she was 16. As recently as last month she posted a picture of Oakland Police officers dropping her off at home. Show wrote took me back to richmond in style. On her Facebook Page she says she is involved in the sex scandal. But she never snitched on anyone. She says she had, quote, harmless friendships within the department. In another post, she says the only officer she messed with while under age is sally gaughn. Brendan obrien committed suicide after his wife killed herself. Investigators say officer obrien left a suicide note that led to an initial internal Affairs Investigation, a subsequent investigation ordered by a federal judge led to many Oakland Police officers admitting they had lied during the first internal Affairs Investigation about their relationship with celeste. Sources say one officer also knitted to knowing she was under age when he had sex with her, admitted that. The spokesman for the oakland Police Department will only say theres an investigation under way involving three officers without getting into any specificking. But she says its another black eye for the department. We are entrusted with the community to protect and serve them, to uphold the laws. So we take allegations of this nature very seriously. Reporter celestes mother works with those Police Officers. She is a dispatcher at opd. Aside from the internal Affairs Investigation, theres a criminal investigation. Now, the Police Department department would not release the officer names. Live at opd, im da lin, kpix 5. San mateo Police Department also dealing with a sex scandal. Since last october, investigators have been working with the d. A. s office on allegations of criminal conduct by an officer. Few other details are being released but were told the officer has since resigned. The police chief released a statement saying, quote, these allegations which involve Sexual Misconduct are so repugnant to all that we stand for in Law Enforcement. Breaking news in San Francisco. Police on the scene of an accident involving a bicyclist. This hang on Market Street near 4th. Chopper 5 showing video of the bike there in the roadway. That red car stopped right in the middle. No word on the conditio of the cyclist but it comes on bike to work day as more righters are competing for space on roads around the bay area. The feds are posting reward money hoping to shake loose a lead on one of the bay areas most wanted fugitives. They are looking for 26year old Ricardo Colindres wanted for first trying to kidnap then shooting his exgirlfriend this is head. She was eight months pregnant. She and her baby are okay but since last months shooting at pacifica, colindres hasnt been seen since. Theres a 2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of colindres. Police are looking for his silver 2003 toyota corolla. He hangs out in brisbane. The death of prince is drawing National Attention to the dangers of opiod addiction. Investigators are looking into whether the singer died from a Drug Overdose last month. Doctors are struggling with what they call an opiod overdose epidemic. Kpix 5 reporter len ramirez on what one county in the bay area is doing to tackle the problem. July 7, 2014, we received a phone call. Reporter amy cooper was on a camping with her family when the Police Called from her eldest sons cell phone. The 26yearold entrepreneur was dead from a prescription Drug Overdose. I left my job and now im spending my entire focus and my advocacy role to get out and talk about this epidemic. The street addict is not the new opiate addict. Its the youth under 30. Reporter Santa Clara County Health Officials say more young people now die of overdoses than from Car Accidents and to prove the point, they decorated an overdose conference with pictures of the victims, teenagers and 20somethings, people from good families who got hooked on pain medication they got from a doctor or family member. What happened is when those prescription opiates are no longer available, youth are turning to street heroin which is actually cheaper than buying the pills on the street. Reporter princes history with painkillers focused new attention on the drugs and the doctors who prescribed them. These medications are for after surgery or accidents or for cancer pain and all of a sudden we ended up using them for all pain. Reporter doctors created the problem and now can help fix it. This doctor heads up an initiative that reduced its doctors prescriptions of opiates by 37 in a year. Patients also need to be retrained to safely dispose of their uneased medicine which can gotten by their unused medicine which can be gotten by teens and thieves. In san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. Doctors say while the u. S. Makes up less than 5 of the worlds population, it uses 80 of the worlds opiates. Its a legal victory for Business Owners and for everyone in california. Governor jerry brown has signed a law giving businesses more time to comply with the americans with disabilities act. Under the law, businesses with less than 50 employees have 120 days to correct issues involving violations of the ada. Small Business Owners applaud the change saying, it helps them avoid frivolous lawsuits while making sure everyone is welcome. They make it sound like we want to hurt the handicapped part of our population but we dont. We want to make everybody accessible. Everybodys money is green. Also under the law larger businesses have 15 days to fix any violations under the ada. Kpix 5s devin fehely first reported on the push to stop costly lawsuits against businesses. Back in march, he spoke to a lawyer who filed many ada suits. Supporters of the bill say they are all for accessibility. They contend the lawsuits are really about money. California law allows a 4,000 penalty for each violation. He says that more than half of the ada compliance claims in california are filed by a handful of attorneys. Of among them, tanya moore. Im very determined to help anybody that has a legitimate claim. Devin also spoke to disability rights activists who argue that a grace period would only discourage compliance. Well, a big celebration about to get under way at the revamped San Francisco museum of modern art. Kpix 5s betty yu is there. You look stunning. The event is sold out. Im not surprised at either of those. Reporter thank you so much allen and liz. Without a doubt, this is the biggest and most glamorous modern ball yet and right now, all of the party guests we are expecting some 3,000 tonight are making their way through those doors. Thats the main entrance and then they are coming right behind me to pose for photos. Were talking about big players tonight in the tech, fashion and art world and we know for example that yahoo Ceo Marissa Mayer will be here. The founder of instagram, the ceo of airbnb will also be coming through. I also just spoke with former mayor willie brown who says he has never seen so many well dressed people in one spot tonight. And hes very, very proud of this gift to the city. Ill show you really quick over here that is the stage where well have Live Performances tonight starting at 9 p. M. For the after party. Earlier we got a sneak peek of two of the dinner settings tonight. The first one is a seated gala dinner where people can bid during a live auction on a lot of artwork and one of those pieces is by artist mark bradford. Then downstairs, we went to a more clublike supperlike kind of dinner. This one has a live deejay and a sexy vibe. Then at 10 00 the building will turn into a party. After three years of multi Million Dollar renovation, this new sf moma will open to the public on saturday. Last month, we got a preview of some of the artwork and were talking about three times the gallery space that it once had so this is not a cookie cutter museum. It is the largest now in the u. S. 10 floors, hundreds of exhibits. Earlier i spoke to the modern ball chair. Take a listen. I feel like its a major contribution. I feel so excited and proud to be part of such a momentous event. But also, part of what this what were giving to the community, culturally, so we this is the largest contemporary collection in the world. Reporter so were talking about 19 full exhibits nearly 2,000 individual artworks. But tonight, its all about the glamour and the celebrity and the grand reopening of this museum and, of course, all of this is to fundraise to raise money. All the proceeds will go to the exhibit and also to all the Educational Programs at the sf moma that they support. Thank you. She gets to go to all the fun parties. They will raise a lot of money. Thank you, betty. An alarming new look at the vanishing middle class. How the income gap is changing life in the bay area. And the serious consequences as more people live pay check to pay check. A sky driving plane crashes in a Northern California vineyard. Tesla gone rogue . A drivers claim his model s crashed into a trailer on its own. The fight over who is at fault. Mobile weather is live tonight in san jose. Its a Beautiful Day outside, but the action is going to be inside. Game 7 sharks predators, well talk about that and have your forecast coming up. ,,,,, phone rings hello . Yeah a new friends coming here to sesame street. If youre looking for freinds. Hi hi everybody cookie allnew its sesame street live make a new friend hello everybodeeeeee no matter where youre from or where youve been. Bakkaaaa count me in sesame street live make a new friend playing the only bay area performances City National civic escaped injury when their skydiving plane landed upsi down in a vineyard. It happened at 2 ear the lodi new at 6 00 17 people escaped injury when their skydiving plane landed upside down in a vineyard in san joaquin county. The cessna experienced engine trouble right after the single engine plane took off. It clipped a vineyard fence or car as the pilot was returning to the airport. The pilot was the only one slightly injured with a bloody nose. Many have been feeling the middle class is shrinking in the bay area and the rich are getting richer. The Pew Research Center study highlights the problem in the San Francisco area. From 20022014 top income inearns went up 14 and the lower income went down. Th on people as they lose ground and fall e middle class. John ramos looks at the impact on people as they lose ground and fall out of that middle class. Reporter the bay area is often seen as a shining beacon in the recovery from the recession but the employment growth in the area may be hiding a fact. A lot of the jobs that are created are low paying or high paying. And less and less in the middle. Reporter a report from the Pew Research Group shows an alarming decrease in the middle class since the turn of the new century. Figures show that in the bay area, the growth of upper income jobs corresponds almost exactly with the loss of middle income jobs. Dr. John gruenstein at Saint Marys College in moraga says there are real consequences when a Society Loses its middle class. A lack of social cohesion, people get, um, very isolated from each other. Reporter he says thats being reflected in this years president ial campaign as both the right and the left search for someone to blame for the growing income inequality. People come in. They are very frustrated. Theyre very depressed. Reporter the Monument Crisis Center in concord is setting up for an event tomorrow where people, many of whom used to be middle class, will be connected with services to help with basic survival. The programs director says she is seeing clients who are teachers, county workers, ordinary people who used to be selfsufficient. The ability to make a good living and take care of your children and provide for basic needs is really escaping most families. Reporter the good morning between rich and poor is growing. The gap between rich and poor is growing as business turns to automation and globalization. The last time america was in this situation it took the world war to put the economy back in balance. Everyone hopes that wont happen again. In concord, john ramos, kpix 5. The pew research grop found that nationally, since the year 2000, the share of adults in middle income households fell in nine out of 10 metropolitan areas. Bart directors voted today to approve a new contract with union workers. The deal ensures there will be no strike for the next five years. It gives workers a 10 raise over four years. Bart union approved the new contract this week. Not clear whether San Francisco voters will be weighing in on a soda tax. Supervisor malia cohen delivered 18,000 signatures to the Election Office today a day after the deadline of the her plan would have taxed sugary drinks onecent an ounce. You are looking at yet another sinkhole in San Francisco. The second one in a week at polk and post streets this time. They expect to get it fixed by the end of the day. The blame is an old out of Service Pipeline that caused some sand and dirt to shift. Meantime, crews are still fixing another very large sinkhole about a mile away on Mission Street in the financial district. Work should be done by tomorrow. Paul deanno is live in san jose and its win or go home for the sharks tonight in game 7 tonight, paul. Reporter ill tell you what, things have really shifted indoors because im standing out here in the middle of nowhere. We are outside the s. A. P. Center where an hour ago there were a lot of people here enjoying a pregame party. They went to the game. Inside is game 7 sharks versus predators. Yes, one teams season will be over tonight, predators. One teams season will continue into the westerns conference finals. We would love to be one of the final four teams in hockey and hopefully in a few hours we will. Live in san jose on a beautiful thursday evening, the weather cooperating but all the action has shifted indoors. Go, sharks beat the predators

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