Some residents objected to the original plan of five traffic circles, citing parking concerns and questioning the circles' effectiveness. Keeping one circle preserves federal funding for the project.
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KPBS Midday EditionChristy Lopez, a professor at Georgetown Law School and a co-director of the school’s Innovative Policing Program, says "defunding the police" doesn't mean zeroing out budgets. It means to reduce the demands placed on police and redirecting funding to mental health care, housing and other social programs. -
The video taken Thursday night showed plainclothes police officers arresting a woman after a downtown protest, and putting her into an unmarked minivan. It also shows one officer saying he would shoot other protesters if they followed. -
La Mesa city officials said they are committed to creating more transparency in the police department, especially following the events of the past weeks. -
The video shows the arrest of a female protester downtown Thursday night by several men, who don’t identify themselves before whisking her away, in unmarked minivans. One of the men threatened to shoot the other protesters if they followed the vans.
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La Mesa police Chief Walt Vasquez announced after a full review of the evidence, the police department will not pursue prosecution in the case of Amaurie Johnson, a 23-year-old black man arrested on May 27 at an apartment complex near the Grossmont Trolley Station. -
In recent days, a group of armed would-be vigilantes in Santee have stood watch outside local shopping centers. They said they’re responding to protests that have broken out in the area against police violence — and that they have the backing of local law enforcement. -
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, and assemblymembers Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, and Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, announced on Thursday that they would pursue legislation controlling the sometimes deadly projectiles. -
First it was San Diego P.D., then the Sheriff's Department a couple of days later. Now every major local law enforcement agency in San Diego has banned use of the carotid neck restraint hold. -
KPBS Midday EditionSharmaine Moseley, executive director of San Diego's Community Review Board on Police Practices, says the board is recommending the San Diego Police Department adopt a deescalation policy similar to one used in the city of Baltimore. -
KPBS Midday EditionHalf of the Guardsmen were deployed to La Mesa and the rest will be deployed elsewhere across the region along with local deputies, sheriff's officials said.
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