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The department said that it is waiting on the Alameda County Coroner’s office to formally verify his identity.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The footage shows what the department calls “homemade weapons”: two long poles with blades affixed to the ends, one in each of Castillo’s hands. The footage shows officers with their guns drawn following Castillo down an East Oakland street for roughly a minute, firing Tasers at him as he stood in a parking lot, then shooting him seconds later as he swung one of two bladed poles he was carrying.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The videos do not capture every angle of the encounter, and CHP has not released footage from its officers, but OPD’s release offers more insight into the moments leading up to Castillo’s death. The videos can be publicly viewed \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandca.nextrequest.com/documents?folder_filter=26-0708_OIS\">here\u003c/a>, with a warning that they contain graphic content. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video footage\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The footage shows California Highway Patrol officers first encountering Castillo at a homeless encampment near 40th Avenue and International Boulevard after 2 p.m. He is holding a hammer and complies when officers tell him to drop it. Castillo then raises the two bladed poles toward the officers, one of whom points a gun at him. He then walks away from the encampment toward the street.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Oakland officers arrive at East 12th Street and 41st Avenue, Castillo is still carrying both poles. Officers get out of their cars and order him to drop the weapons. He keeps walking. One officer can be heard telling him, “Just stop and talk to us.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo yells back, but most of what he says is difficult to make out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An Oakland Police Department Vehicle in Oakland on July 1, 2025. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As Castillo walks up 41st Avenue toward International Boulevard, footage from a second officer’s camera and a nearby security camera shows two adults and a child walking past Castillo on the sidewalk. An officer waves them along. Roughly 20 seconds later, as Castillo continues walking toward International Boulevard on 41st Avenue, one of the officers says, “We are going to use force. Just stop.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo walks into a parking lot on 41st Avenue, connected to businesses on International Boulevard. Around five officers follow him at a walking pace. Tasers are deployed — an officer can be heard saying, “Hit him again,” before a second Taser is heard. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo swings one pole. Immediately, multiple gunshots follow, and he falls forward. One more shot is heard. In the footage, no officer appears to be within arm’s reach of him when he swings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A wider angle from the parking lot shows nine officers in view. Text on one video states that two officers fired their weapons. After a resuscitation attempt, Castillo died on scene.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The officers who fired were placed on paid administrative leave. The department is conducting criminal and internal affairs investigations. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is also conducting an independent investigation, and the city’s civilian Community Police Review Agency has been notified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>OPD told KQED the investigation remains ongoing and that no additional information is being provided at this time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The shooting is the third by Oakland officers this year and the second that was fatal, following an April 27 shooting in the 1800 block of 89th Avenue that left one dead, and a May 8 shooting near Ninth Avenue that wounded a man police said dragged one officer and pinned another against a parked car. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It also lands seven weeks before U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick is scheduled to decide whether to end more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085228/oakland-police-judge-clears-path-for-possible-end-to-federal-oversight\">two decades of federal oversight\u003c/a> of the department. Federal monitor Robert Warshaw found in a May 22 report that OPD had met all 51 court-ordered reforms for the first time, and Orrick has said he will close the case at a Sept. 29 hearing as long as the department stays in compliance. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community response\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project, questioned the role of CHP on the scene and said the man visible in the footage appeared to be in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“He needed help,” Brooks said. “He needed somebody that knows how to talk to people that are in elevated states of mental health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12017328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Oakland Police Department on Nov. 12, 2016. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Brooks said officers could have backed off instead of following Castillo and called a non-police crisis responder. She added that she did not believe the shooting was justified.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>APTP said it is still trying to reach Castillo’s family, and OPD is asking the public for help locating his next of kin. Brooks said the organization is holding a protest at 5 p.m. Friday at Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was somebody’s son,” she said. “Probably somebody’s brother, father. Whether he lived outside or he lived inside, he was one of us.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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One officer can be heard telling him, “Just stop and talk to us.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo yells back, but most of what he says is difficult to make out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An Oakland Police Department Vehicle in Oakland on July 1, 2025. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As Castillo walks up 41st Avenue toward International Boulevard, footage from a second officer’s camera and a nearby security camera shows two adults and a child walking past Castillo on the sidewalk. An officer waves them along. Roughly 20 seconds later, as Castillo continues walking toward International Boulevard on 41st Avenue, one of the officers says, “We are going to use force. Just stop.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo walks into a parking lot on 41st Avenue, connected to businesses on International Boulevard. Around five officers follow him at a walking pace. Tasers are deployed — an officer can be heard saying, “Hit him again,” before a second Taser is heard. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo swings one pole. Immediately, multiple gunshots follow, and he falls forward. One more shot is heard. In the footage, no officer appears to be within arm’s reach of him when he swings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A wider angle from the parking lot shows nine officers in view. Text on one video states that two officers fired their weapons. After a resuscitation attempt, Castillo died on scene.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The officers who fired were placed on paid administrative leave. The department is conducting criminal and internal affairs investigations. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is also conducting an independent investigation, and the city’s civilian Community Police Review Agency has been notified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>OPD told KQED the investigation remains ongoing and that no additional information is being provided at this time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The shooting is the third by Oakland officers this year and the second that was fatal, following an April 27 shooting in the 1800 block of 89th Avenue that left one dead, and a May 8 shooting near Ninth Avenue that wounded a man police said dragged one officer and pinned another against a parked car. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It also lands seven weeks before U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick is scheduled to decide whether to end more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085228/oakland-police-judge-clears-path-for-possible-end-to-federal-oversight\">two decades of federal oversight\u003c/a> of the department. Federal monitor Robert Warshaw found in a May 22 report that OPD had met all 51 court-ordered reforms for the first time, and Orrick has said he will close the case at a Sept. 29 hearing as long as the department stays in compliance. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community response\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project, questioned the role of CHP on the scene and said the man visible in the footage appeared to be in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“He needed help,” Brooks said. “He needed somebody that knows how to talk to people that are in elevated states of mental health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12017328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Oakland Police Department on Nov. 12, 2016. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-bay\">Hayward\u003c/a> resident Lyle Prijoles was 40 years old when he was killed in a military operation in the Philippines, along with 18 other people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lyle spent years traveling to the Philippines to document the conditions impacting rural farming communities. In April, he went to Negros Occidental, planning to stay for about three months and live among sugarcane workers. On April 19, he was killed there in a Philippine Army operation. Another American, 26-year-old Kai Sorem of Seattle, was also killed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Three months later, in a \u003ca href=\"https://jayapal.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Toboso-Killings-Letter.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> delivered to Philippine Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez, U.S. Rep. 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Osaki added that reports indicate up to nine of those killed were civilians, including a local journalist, a university student, two land rights activists and two minors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12083275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Activists in the Bay Area remember Lyle Prijoles. Lawmakers signed a letter demanding an independent and credible investigation from an entity outside of the Philippine government. (Courtesy of Bayan USA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sen. Adam Schiff signed the July 21 letter, along with Sens. Jeff Merkley, Chris Van Hollen and eight U.S. House members. 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He followed his sister, Lily, to the Bay Area and enrolled at San Francisco State University, where he joined the League of Filipino Students on campus. He also worked as a box office manager at Bindlestiff Studio, a Filipino American theater in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family first traveled to the Philippines together in 2000, Lily told KQED. “He just wanted to make the Philippines a better place,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She rejects any suggestion that her brother wandered into something he did not understand. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is the work he dedicated his heart to,” she said. “He understood the sacrifice he might have to make.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family learned of his death two days after it happened, when Lyle’s wife got word through Filipino community organizations. She then drove from Union City to Lily’s home in Hercules at 3 a.m, to deliver the news of Lyle’s passing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lily and her sister-in-law flew to the Philippines to identify and claim his body. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our family has come to terms that we will never get the type of justice found with a jury and a judge or even jail time,” she said at the press conference. “The Philippine Army should not be shooting at civilians and hiding their mistakes.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 passed a resolution condemning the Army’s actions in Negros, where sugar farmers have long organized. The resolution passed during ILWU Local 6’s strike at the C&H sugar refinery in Crockett, California, which sources sugar from Negros. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Negros produces more than 2 million metric tons of sugar a year, and the Crockett refinery sources close to 100,000 metric tons of it annually, according to Local 10’s resolution. The union passed it during a strike by Local 6 warehouse workers in Crockett that began June 15.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jayapal’s letter argued that inquiry from within the Philippine government cannot stand on its own, pointing to a lack of cooperation from security forces and their refusal to hand over key evidence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We really cannot expect a fair and independent and thorough investigation from these agencies,” said AK Guillen, an attorney with the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in the Philippines, “because any investigation conducted by the Philippine government is spearheaded by the very same agencies leading the Philippine counterinsurgency campaign.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Both families describe a chaotic recovery. Lily Prijoles said relatives were told that if her brother’s body remained unclaimed, it would be placed in a mass grave, and that a local organizer was the only person permitted at the scene after two days of restricted access. She said her brother’s body had been dressed in a shirt that was not his, and that she was never able to obtain his clothing or belongings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12083272\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Activists in the Bay Area hold a memorial for activist Lyle Prijoles. 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He also worked as a box office manager at Bindlestiff Studio, a Filipino American theater in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family first traveled to the Philippines together in 2000, Lily told KQED. “He just wanted to make the Philippines a better place,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She rejects any suggestion that her brother wandered into something he did not understand. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is the work he dedicated his heart to,” she said. “He understood the sacrifice he might have to make.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The family learned of his death two days after it happened, when Lyle’s wife got word through Filipino community organizations. She then drove from Union City to Lily’s home in Hercules at 3 a.m, to deliver the news of Lyle’s passing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lily and her sister-in-law flew to the Philippines to identify and claim his body. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our family has come to terms that we will never get the type of justice found with a jury and a judge or even jail time,” she said at the press conference. “The Philippine Army should not be shooting at civilians and hiding their mistakes.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 passed a resolution condemning the Army’s actions in Negros, where sugar farmers have long organized. 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The union passed it during a strike by Local 6 warehouse workers in Crockett that began June 15.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jayapal’s letter argued that inquiry from within the Philippine government cannot stand on its own, pointing to a lack of cooperation from security forces and their refusal to hand over key evidence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We really cannot expect a fair and independent and thorough investigation from these agencies,” said AK Guillen, an attorney with the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in the Philippines, “because any investigation conducted by the Philippine government is spearheaded by the very same agencies leading the Philippine counterinsurgency campaign.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Both families describe a chaotic recovery. Lily Prijoles said relatives were told that if her brother’s body remained unclaimed, it would be placed in a mass grave, and that a local organizer was the only person permitted at the scene after two days of restricted access. She said her brother’s body had been dressed in a shirt that was not his, and that she was never able to obtain his clothing or belongings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12083272\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260512-Lyle-Prijoles-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Activists in the Bay Area hold a memorial for activist Lyle Prijoles. 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His attorneys are asking the court to vacate the conviction, citing Green’s recantation and hundreds of pages of police reports they say prosecutors failed to turn over for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rushing entered the courtroom in a yellow jumpsuit with his fist raised, smiling at a gallery nearly full of supporters — roughly two dozen people, some of whom said they had themselves been wrongfully convicted and others who had never met him.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At trial, prosecutors argued Rushing killed Taylor, 25, in Oakland in 2011 over the belief that Taylor had stolen his iPod. 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The Alameda County District Attorney’s office said it would not comment on the ongoing case.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Outside the courthouse, the hearing drew supporters who framed Rushing’s case as another example of convictions built on a single, shaky eyewitness testimony. Among them was Jamal Trulove, an organizer who was convicted of a 2007 San Francisco murder before an appeals court overturned the conviction and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11630235\">he was acquitted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A federal jury later found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660586/jury-finds-san-francisco-police-officers-framed-a-man-for-murder\">police had fabricated evidence\u003c/a> and coerced the eyewitness against Trulove. 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It was very emotional.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Demora Henderson, who said he also had been wrongfully convicted in 2006 of murder in San Francisco, traveled to support Rushing after seeing his case on \u003cem>CNN\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m coming here to show solidarity and show the system that a lot of people [are] wrongfully incarcerated,” he said. 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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco judge will soon decide whether or not to proceed with the criminal trial of a man charged with assaulting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ice\">an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caleb Alexander Ranney was arrested on Aug. 8, 2025, at 630 Sansome St., the city’s ICE field office and detention facility, after an hourslong standoff between protesters and ICE agents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roughly 10 protesters were outside when two vans left the building at 3:18 p.m., escorted by about a dozen uniformed officers who pointed pepper ball rifles and batons at the crowd, according to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/ice-tackles-detains-protesters/\">\u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which obtained a video detailing the incident.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The outlet reported that ICE officers tackled and detained two protesters outside the building at around 3:25 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Protesters at the scene later told \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em> that approximately three minutes after detaining the protesters, officers fired pepper balls under the garage door.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-ICEPROTEST-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12061608\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-ICEPROTEST-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-ICEPROTEST-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-ICEPROTEST-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Led by Aztec traditional dancers, demonstrators march around the ICE Field Office on Sansome Street in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2025, calling for the agency’s removal from the city. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prosecutors charged Ranney in December with two misdemeanors: assaulting a federal officer and destroying government property. They submitted the charges by information — a document that the U.S. Attorney’s Office files directly, without having to go through a grand jury.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document alleges that Ranney “forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated, and interfered with” an ICE deportation officer it identifies only as “Victim One,” and that he damaged a secure vehicle entrance on the Jackson Street side of the building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ranney’s defense has asked the U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Hixson, who will preside over the trial, to consider the actions by a different officer at the scene: Federal Protective Service Inspector Stephen Glumaz. The public defenders alleged that Glumaz fired pepper ball rounds into the crowd shortly before the alleged assault. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The latest motion from Ranney’s defense marks the third allegation that the government mishandled evidence in the case. Hixson has already ruled that agents unconstitutionally searched Ranney’s backpack, and separately sanctioned the government for losing or destroying items taken from it, though he declined to dismiss the case on those grounds. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12043374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anti-ICE protesters chant over SFPD officers during a demonstration outside the ICE offices in San Francisco on June 8, 2025. (Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The defense now argues that those episodes amount to “a pattern of misconduct by government agents with regard to the search in this case, spoliation of evidence, and lying about it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In June, prosecutors left Glumaz off their witness list, and the defense subpoenaed him on July 9 to testify at trial.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to the motion, Glumaz’s supervisor emailed him on March 25 to inform him that he had been decertified “as a PepperBall and FN303 operator” and could not possess or operate either weapon until further notice. The last line of that email, defense attorneys wrote, said the decertification was “in connection with the use of force incidents” on Aug. 8 and Aug. 20, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The motion said that prosecutors did not turn that email over until the evening of July 22 — nearly four months after it was sent — and five days before trial. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Whether Glumaz has since regained his certification is not clear from the filings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Not only was this the first time that the defense was made aware that Inspector Glumaz’s decertification from use of the pepper ball gun was caused by his actions on the date of the charged incident,” the motion stated, “this was also the first time the defense was made aware that Inspector Glumaz (or any other involved agent who was part of the same team) was involved in the subsequent protest on August 20, 2025.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In an earlier filing, the defense pointed to surveillance footage, saying that it shows “a federal officer firing multiple pepper balls at unarmed protesters less than a minute before Mr. Ranney allegedly assaulted an ICE officer.” The defense said it may argue that Ranney acted in self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under the 1963 Supreme Court ruling in \u003cem>Brady v. 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The judge is scheduled to take up the motion at 9 a.m. Monday — the hour the trial is set to begin.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12043271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Protesters link arms during an anti-ICE protest on June 8, 2025. 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