Sara Hossaini came to general assignment reporting at KQED in 2013 after two winters reporting at Wyoming Public Radio. She holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her radio romance began after a bitter breakup with documentary film (Ok, maybe it's still complicated). Her first simultaneous jobs in San Francisco were as Associate Producer on a PBS film series through the Center for Asian American Media and as a butler. She likes to trot, plot and make things with her hands.
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A potential work stoppage by the two unions, which collectively represent as many as 4,500 workers, would be San José’s largest since 1981. City officials have been preparing contingency plans. Just three years ago, the same unions came to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958216/san-jose-city-worker-strike-on-hold-after-agreement\">brink of a strike\u003c/a> before reaching an agreement with the city on raises. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, the city’s fiscal outlook is much worse, said Aram Kouyoumdjian, San José’s director of human resources and employee relations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2023, the council approved a budget with a $35 million surplus. The budget approved in June closed a $50 million shortfall in the current fiscal year, and another deficit is expected next year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While department directors are preparing for the “serious possibility” of a work stoppage, Kouyoumdjian said, “We are endeavoring to mitigate or prevent a strike in whatever way that we can while remaining responsible stewards of the public’s money.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Before selecting the dates of a potential strike, the two unions have requested a process known as fact-finding. A three-person panel, facilitated by the California Public Employment Relations Board, will review the offers made by the two sides and issue non-binding recommendations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The most recent public proposals show workers with the unions are asking for a 14% wage increase over three years, while the city has offered a 9% hike over that same time period. But Kouyoumdjian said the city is open to offering greater wage hikes that would be triggered if the budget situation improves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The strike would not affect garbage and recycling services, which separate contractors provide. Depending on the length of a work stoppage and participation levels, library hours, permit wait times and operations at San José Mineta International Airport could be affected to varying degrees. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not something that we take lightly,” Ornellas said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At the end of the 2025-26 school year, fresh-faced kindergarteners at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley-unified-school-district\">Berkeley \u003c/a>practiced reading using small story books. They sounded out aloud in Spanish, like a disorganized, but undeniably impressive, chorus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo..lo..\u003cem>la\u003c/em> manzana!” “Esta es mi casa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their own pace, students decoded the words on the pages, pulling apart the sounds and common parts, and then stringing them back together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go around, everyone is reading,” their teacher, Rocio Guzman, said. Guzman has taught at the Berkeley Unified School District for 17 years, and most recently at this dual-language school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are in kindergarten, and you see their writings, too. For me, it’s incredible.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t always that way, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before there was a big difference between who could read and who couldn’t,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Guzman, a two-way immersion teacher, works with students during a reading session at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley on June 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade after a landmark class-action lawsuit accused BUSD of failing students with reading disabilities, the district is starting to see evidence that a sweeping overhaul of literacy instruction is taking root.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A final report delivered this month found that the change extends beyond curriculum — reforms from the legal settlement and shifting educational paradigms in the U.S. are becoming embedded in the district’s culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes stem from a 2017 lawsuit, when several district families alleged the district allowed their kids with reading disorders like dyslexia to fall through the cracks, causing lifelong harm. The plaintiffs argued that the district had failed to test kids for these learning differences — which, if identified and met with appropriate interventions in their early years, could allow them to progress alongside their peers and even excel.[aside postID=news_12086884 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MariaSuAP1.jpg']The district settled the suit in 2021, agreeing to a formidable \u003ca href=\"https://dredf.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Class-Action-Settlement-Agreement.pdf\">list\u003c/a> of 35 action steps. BUSD embarked on a plan to improve literacy the following year, alongside three years of mandated oversight. This work coincided with a national reckoning on how to teach reading, which has become known as the “Reading Wars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate was \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/what-made-sold-a-story-so-consequential-emily-hanford-interview/\">addressed\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/\">\u003cem>Sold a Story\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a 2022 podcast by education journalist Emily Hanson. Her report described how many parents realized during COVID-19 lockdowns that phonics — analyzing a word by its parts and sounds —was no longer the instructional approach for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, schools encouraged kids to try to figure out words from context or pictures, a practice known as “cueing,” as part of a “balanced literacy” approach. This method \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/science-of-reading-literacy-parents.html\">focused more\u003c/a> on developing a love of books and ensuring students understood the meaning of stories. BUSD was among the practice’s most fervent adherents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973560/7-years-after-lawsuit-berkeley-schools-slow-to-adopt-effective-reading-curriculum\">protracted\u003c/a> legal dispute and other delays, BUSD joined districts \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/newsom-proposes-literacy-roadmap-but-will-remain-hands-off-on-how-districts-teach-reading/686621\">state- and \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lexialearning.com/blog/the-science-of-reading-vs-balanced-literacy\">nationwide \u003c/a>in reversing course on its approach to teaching literacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its first three years of monitoring, the district adopted screenings and science-based interventions for struggling elementary and middle schoolers. During that time, the teachers were required to review their reading curricula to see if it was evidence-based. They concluded that it wasn’t and began the process of selecting a new approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students listen to teacher Rocio Guzman during class at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley on June 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BUSD eventually selected two new programs for all elementary school-aged kids: a functional phonics and morphology curriculum, and a Spanish-language equivalent — programs that experts say aren’t just the right way to teach kids with learning differences — but are great for all young learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a final \u003ca href=\"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/ViewMeeting.aspx?S=36030527&MID=74568&Tab=Agenda&enIID=a6yoZvV2BpFzPvKus5D1XQ%3D%3D\">report \u003c/a>delivered at the end of BUSD’s recent school year — its first using the new approach district-wide — Kim Gibbons, the district’s former literacy consultant and most recent settlement monitor, told the school board the “ shift” she observed “is one of the clearest indicators that improvement efforts have really started to become embedded within the district’s culture and systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gibbons’ analysis, the district’s youngest readers showed the largest gains: 79% of BUSD kindergarteners were reading at or above grade level by the spring, a 27% improvement from the fall. Of first graders, 86% finished on track, a 19-point jump over the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, according to the report, challenges remained. Nearly a quarter of second graders at one of two unnamed focus schools identified previously as lagging in adopting the new methods remained well below benchmarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Hispanic K-2 students showed strong growth alongside some benchmark improvement for African American students, longstanding achievement disparities persist between white and African American students, especially in older grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Guzman, a two-way immersion teacher, teaches at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley on June 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know we’re not done,” BUSD Literacy Coordinator Rose James said. “The data doesn’t look as good as we want it to look, and it never will. We’re going to keep going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibbons found that the district had met its legal obligation to the settlement, but some families still worry the district still isn’t ready to fly solo when it comes to literacy education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Nofelt, a Berkeley mom of a dyslexic child as well as a BUSD middle schooler, has tracked the district’s literacy transformation, creating a resource \u003ca href=\"https://www.readingforberkeley.org/\">website \u003c/a>for other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nofelt said a monitor is still needed because she believes the report, which focused on grades K-5, hasn’t proven BUSD met the settlement goal of “ensuring fidelity of Literacy Improvement Program implementation” in upper grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The settlement is not complete until middle school students have better instruction and support. They don’t read many books. It’s a roulette wheel based on what teacher you get,” Nofelt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bse.berkeley.edu/george-ellis\">George Ellis\u003c/a>, director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UC Berkeley and BUSD’s former settlement monitor, disagreed. He said while the district has overhauled special education interventions for middle schools, structured literacy likely won’t be the focus of any future changes to overall middle school curriculum because it’s not age-appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Ellis said he understands why some families are reluctant to lose a rare level of oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086386\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-12-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-12-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-12-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-12-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Guzman, a two-way immersion teacher, works with students during a reading session at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley on June 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was a very unique situation where you had outside monitors reporting on progress and compliance. You don’t see that in public schools,” Ellis said, “I think the monitoring piece was a wonderful addition and a very necessary piece. I think at the same time at some point it became a crutch for going around the systems that are already in place for holding the district accountable for improving student outcomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Ellis said he believes the data shows Berkeley administrators and many teachers have successfully internalized a culture of data-based decision-making. 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Her report described how many parents realized during COVID-19 lockdowns that phonics — analyzing a word by its parts and sounds —was no longer the instructional approach for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, schools encouraged kids to try to figure out words from context or pictures, a practice known as “cueing,” as part of a “balanced literacy” approach. This method \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/science-of-reading-literacy-parents.html\">focused more\u003c/a> on developing a love of books and ensuring students understood the meaning of stories. 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Of first graders, 86% finished on track, a 19-point jump over the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, according to the report, challenges remained. Nearly a quarter of second graders at one of two unnamed focus schools identified previously as lagging in adopting the new methods remained well below benchmarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Hispanic K-2 students showed strong growth alongside some benchmark improvement for African American students, longstanding achievement disparities persist between white and African American students, especially in older grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260603-BerkeleySchoolsLiteracy-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Guzman, a two-way immersion teacher, teaches at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley on June 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know we’re not done,” BUSD Literacy Coordinator Rose James said. “The data doesn’t look as good as we want it to look, and it never will. 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"content": "\u003cp>San José State University must reinstate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988162/sjsu-professor-who-was-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protests-speaks-out\">Sang Hea Kil\u003c/a>, a professor fired for actions related to pro-Palestinian activism, with full back pay after an arbitrator on Monday decided the school went too far with its sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move ends a two-year institutional standoff and represents a significant win for Kil and her advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrary to the recommendation of a faculty panel, SJSU fired Kil late last year, citing her involvement in three on-campus demonstrations spanning the spring of 2024, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">student activism over the war in Gaza\u003c/a> gripped university campuses nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil, the former faculty adviser for Students for Justice in Palestine, is one of the first tenured professors \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests\">fired\u003c/a> from a public U.S. university over on-campus demonstrations in connection with the recent protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel what happened to me was to silence any pro-Palestinian solidarity in academia and also in this nation,” Kil told KQED on Monday. “I fought as hard as I possibly can with the support and solidarity of my colleagues and social justice groups. We won, and it’s a victory for academic freedom on campus and pro-Palestine speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university declined to comment, citing “ongoing personnel matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088416\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED-1159x1536.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sang Hea Kil at a protest at SJSU in February 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sang Hea Kil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the arbitrator stated that while the California State University system was able to meet the burden of proving that Kil engaged in unprofessional conduct, it could not prove a failure or refusal to perform her job duties as a professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, the third-party review concluded that dismissal was an “excessive and disproportionate” sanction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To determine a proportionate sanction for such misconduct, the surrounding circumstances, the harm that resulted, and the likelihood of recurrence must be considered,” arbitrator Howard Pearlman wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to faculty review documents and arbitration hearing records obtained by KQED, the case against Kil began in February 2024, when she planned to attend a public guest lecture by Jeffrey Blutinger, director of the Jewish Studies program at Cal State University Long Beach, on a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aware that some pro-Palestinian students were organizing to protest the event, university administrators, faculty organizers and campus police testified that they had moved the talk to a private classroom less than an hour before the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil testified that she and several dozen demonstrators who showed up at the library eventually learned of the new location and made their way to the classroom hallway, still unaware that the lecture was no longer public. She said when they were denied entry at the door, the group sat, chanted and stomped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, school officials notified Kil that she was under investigation for allegedly violating school rules around professional responsibility and time, place and manner — policies that govern where and how sanctioned campus protests can take place.[aside postID=news_12087836 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061626CSU-Labor_GH_003-KQED.jpg']The following month, the university expanded its probe and placed Kil on paid administrative leave for “directing and encouraging” students to join encampments and violate university policies — which Kil and her representation disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a year of suspension, SJSU fired Kil, who then opted for her right to appeal via a panel of her peers to publicly review the university’s case against her — a rarely invoked step. The faculty panel recommended no further sanction beyond the yearlong suspension Kil had already completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2025, the university upheld her termination anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SJSU’s agreement with its faculty’s union, a five-day arbitration hearing would be Kil’s final chance to appeal her firing. During those March 2026 proceedings, CSU lawyers justified the dismissal by emphasizing the “totality” of her alleged unprofessional conduct and refusal to perform her duties as a professor during the spring events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top administrators argued that Kil’s “lack of remorse” indicated a lack of “rehabilitative potential” — something Pearlman told lawyers he “had a hard time believing” given her 17-year employment and clean record. In 2018, the Justice Studies professor \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.sjsu.edu/chhs/2018/10/25/2018-chhs-service-awards-recipients/#:~:text=This%20past%20year%2C%20Sang%20served,outreach%20to%20students%20and%20retention.\">earned\u003c/a> the College of Health and Human Sciences Department’s lifetime achievement award.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil, a self-described “scholar-activist,” and her union representatives alleged that university administrators bypassed standard disciplinary procedure and terminated her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tower Hall at San José State University on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her team also argued her punishment was unfair, given examples of other professors who’d received \u003ca href=\"https://calcoastnews.com/2025/06/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo-pro-palestinian-professor-suspended/\">lighter\u003c/a> discipline for more serious \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/d951a6c5af1d449f9244cecb68562b13\">conduct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/systemwide-academic-congress/speakers/henry-reichman.html\">Henry Reichman\u003c/a>, California State University, East Bay professor emeritus and academic freedom expert, testified that the “worst thing [Kil] did was engage in noisemaking that was already happening.” He went on to offer a blistering rebuke of the school’s disregard for progressive discipline and tenure, which he said would have a chilling effect on academic freedom and free speech throughout the CSU system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Kil said she’s excited to return to the classroom after two years away, she’s worried for her safety. She said she’s faced backlash, describing hateful graffiti threatening violence against Asians, Jews and Muslims scrawled on her office building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who have been targeted for anti-genocide or pro-Palestine speech, once they’ve been fired, they’re blacklisted,” she said. “If they had won, I would never have gotten an academic job in the U.S.A. ever again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The jury found that he did not act with malice when he shot Polk, but he was still not justified in acting in self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the sentencing hearing on Wednesday at the San Francisco Hall of Justice, Epps cried as he read a statement accepting responsibility and expressing remorse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no excuse for what I’ve done,” he said. “I pray for Mr. Polk’s family and ask for forgiveness every day of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several supporters spoke about Epps’ work in San Francisco community organizations, and his 12-year-old daughter begged the judge for leniency through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk’s loved ones, meanwhile, described Epps as abusive and said he did not need to shoot Polk that day in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00246seqn_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00246seqn_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00246seqn_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00246seqn_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmmaker and journalist Kevin Epps (left) embraces his mother Brenda Epps (right) at the Superior Court of San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2025, after a jury found him not guilty of the murder of Marcus Polk. A jury did find Epps guilty of voluntary manslaughter. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He killed our dad in cold blood for no reason,” said Polk’s oldest daughter, Jazmine Polk. “Kevin caused so much chaos … a permanent shadow over our family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the sentence was read, Epps’ supporters and family cried out as he was taken back into custody. The move surprised Epps’ defense team, who had asked for no prison time and said they plan to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2016 shooting occurred after Polk came to the home of his ex-wife’s sister, Maryam Jhan. Jhan, Epps’ former partner, lived in the home with their two children. At one time, Epps also resided there, though the timeline was contested at trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residence was a gathering place for Jhan’s extended family — her sister, Starr Gul, and the three children she had with Polk were often present. Prosecutors said Jhan also allowed Polk, who was unhoused and recently out of jail at the time, to come over to visit his children, take showers and watch television on a fairly regular basis.[aside postID=news_12066917 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00054seqn_TV_qed.jpg']Defense attorneys said during the trial that Polk had come to the home the night before the shooting and banged on the door. Epps turned him away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, he returned, high on methamphetamine and cannabis, and was told to leave again. He entered the house anyway, and shortly after, Epps shot him in the left arm and torso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps’ defense attorneys said he was acting in self-defense, telling the jury that Polk had been acting “erratically” and threatening to “air out” Epps. Polk had just gotten into a verbal altercation with maintenance workers out front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors posed a different narrative: They argued that Epps was motivated by a simmering dispute between the men over how frequently Polk visited the house. Attorneys were not allowed to present his criminal history to the jury, but Polk was a registered sex offender and had prior convictions for domestic abuse against Gul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father made many mistakes, but he always faced the consequences,” Jazmine, Polk’s oldest daughter, said ahead of the sentencing on Wednesday. “He would tell the best stories, cook the best burgers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said one of their favorite places to be together was the Glen Park home, where she said Polk visited often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To claim that Epps didn’t know my dad or was scared of him was not true,” Jazmine Polk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065011\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of Kevin Epps rally outside of the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In asking for a noncustodial sentence, Epps’ defense attorneys had argued that the gun possession charge should serve as the principal term, carrying the greatest punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have many thoughts about Mr. Epps’ possession of that illegal gun that night, but to conclude that that is the principal crime here, would diminish the killing of a man — [who] amongst everyone who appears here today … is probably the least empowered in our society,” Judge Brian Ferrall said. “A person on parole, addicted to drugs, unhoused, unemployed, no real resources and armed with a remote control at the moment of death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps had faced several potential aggravating sentencing factors weighed separately from the main charges, but the jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision on those. They were dismissed and not considered in the sentence on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge also granted a defense motion to not consider his prior residential burglary conviction from 1997 as a strike, which could have added several years to his sentence.[aside postID=news_12078050 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/025_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021_qed-1020x679.jpg']Epps’ arrest in connection with the shooting in 2016 caught the attention of many who knew him for his series of documentaries on the experience of Black San Franciscans in the early 2000s. He broke through with his 2003 feature documentary \u003cem>Straight Outta Hunters Point\u003c/em>, which traced the trajectory of the area where he grew up from a place of shipyard opportunity for Black workers to a crime-plagued neighborhood of systemic neglect. The film resonated widely in San Francisco, playing at the Metreon 16 megaplex downtown for multiple weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary, which screened at film festivals worldwide, also caught the attention of acclaimed director Spike Lee, who teamed up with Epps to film \u003cem>Sucker Free City\u003c/em> in San Francisco. Originally conceived as a TV series for Showtime, the story of three young men of different ethnicities pulled into a life of crime was adapted into a feature film, set in Visitacion Valley, Hunters Point and the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a director, Epps went on to make the documentaries \u003cem>Rap Dreams \u003c/em>(2006), \u003cem>The Black Rock AKA Black Alcatraz \u003c/em>(2009), and \u003cem>Hippie Hill\u003c/em> (2018). In 2012, he released \u003cem>Straight Outta Hunters Point 2\u003c/em>, a follow-up to his debut film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the 2016 shooting, then-District Attorney George Gascón elected not to charge Epps, saying there was insufficient evidence, but in 2019, Epps was arrested again and charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps was granted bail in 2020, a highly unusual move in a murder case, after hundreds, including Jhan, petitioned the court. He has spent most of the years since then out of custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, he took over as the executive editor of the \u003cem>San Francisco Bay View \u003c/em>newspaper, and last year he earned an award from the Northern California chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists for bringing “fresh energy, multimedia storytelling and digital innovation to one of the Bay Area’s last Black-owned newspapers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I genuinely wish you the best,” Ferrall told Epps after reading the sentence. “I know you will do good for the community when you come out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmeline\">\u003cem>Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For those working to prevent human trafficking throughout the year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/super-bowl\">Super Bowl LX\u003c/a> at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara provides high-profile visibility for their cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As security increases for the big game, advocates, local governments and law enforcement agencies are beefing up efforts to curb human coercion ahead of and during the Super Bowl, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071931/the-super-bowl-\">which has already drawn massive crowds and money\u003c/a> to the Bay Area. In addition, the National Football League, in partnership with the Bay Area Host Committee, is offering its financial support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I don’t know if there’ll ever be a day that everyone’s going to talk about human trafficking happening, but I’m going to throw that shot in the dark and attempt to through this powerful platform,” said Cheryl Csiky, executive director of the Portland-based nonprofit In Our Backyard and herself a survivor of human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, Csiky travels to Super Bowl host cities for outreach. Around a week before Super Bowl LX, she helped hand out booklets of photos at Santa Clara University featuring three dozen missing kids registered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who are believed to be at risk for exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of our event is to have people visit a convenience store, their regular gas station, bring in these books and get convenience stores to realize they are the eyes and ears of our community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072228\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Csiky, executive director of In Our Backyard, poses for a portrait in Santa Clara on Feb. 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Csiky, last year, 15 out of 36 missing children were recovered within a week of the Super Bowl in New Orleans, the result of coordinated efforts with the Center and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of investment that is provided at the time of these large events is hard to replicate at other times,” said Sharan Dhanoa, director of the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, one of several local nonprofits that recently received grants to combat the issue from the NFL through the Bay Area Host Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, her group and its crisis intervention partners served 361 survivors who met the federal definition of trafficking — that is, forced, fraudulent or coercive labor. Out of 1,800 youth screened for potential signs of trafficking, more than 300 were identified as a possible or clear concern\u003cem>.\u003c/em>[aside postID=news_12071704 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg']The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10850616/super-bowl-week-puts-spotlight-on-increased-human-trafficking\">last time the Super Bowl\u003c/a> came to the Bay Area in 2016, more than a dozen pimps were arrested, and seven youth, as young as 14, several of whose parents had reported them missing, were reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-super-bowl-prostitution-sweep-20160209-story.html\">rescued\u003c/a> from sexual exploitation in the week leading up to the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.mccaininstitute.org/resources/reports/countering-human-trafficking-at-large-sporting-events/\">longstanding research \u003c/a>has not found a large surge in human trafficking during the Super Bowl — something experts posit could be associated with the temporarily heightened scrutiny and media attention — Dhanoa said the multi-jurisdictional cooperation and extra resources it attracts help combat the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got tens of thousands of people coming to the Bay Area from all over the United States and even other parts of the world,” said Jeff Rosen, district attorney for Santa Clara County. “You wouldn’t think that illegitimate businesses would also seek to profit from that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office is leading an anti-trafficking task force comprised of more than 50 law enforcement officers, crime analysts and prosecutors across the region’s nine counties to intercept exploiters through undercover stings, online investigations and lots of overtime. Social workers, nonprofit service providers, the FBI and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_0905_ops_sear-fact-sheet.pdf\">federal partners\u003c/a> support this effort, too, Rosen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the task force will prosecute traffickers and \u003cem>not\u003c/em> people selling sex — whether they are exploited or acting independently, though he said he believes the latter represent just a small proportion of those involved in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072226 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00067_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00067_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00067_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00067_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An umbrella reads, “ICE OUT, sex work in” during a rally to bring awareness about ICE and law enforcement wrongfully arresting consensual sex workers outside of San José McEnery Convention Center on the opening night of Super Bowl LX in San José on Feb. 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Dominique Roe-Sepowitz, director of Arizona State University’s Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention and Research, the number of “renegade” or independent sex workers — who have always operated without a pimp, for example — might be as low as 10%, with nine out of 10 people arrested on prostitution charges in Phoenix over a decade having been trafficked at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, operations framed as anti-trafficking tend to expose people selling sex — particularly migrants — to serious legal and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071370/as-bay-area-gears-up-to-host-super-bowl-lx-and-bad-bunny-halftime-show-fears-of-ice-loom\">immigration\u003c/a> risks, said Maxine Doogan, founder of the San Francisco-based Erotic Service Provider Legal, Education and Research Project, which aims to challenge stigmas about sex work and dismantle what the group considers harmful laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doogan said she worried that ahead of Super Bowl LX, local police departments’ vice squads would continue to enforce anti-prostitution laws on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00116_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00116_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00116_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00116_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maxine Doogan (left), an organizer from Stop the Raids, Reagan (center) and Velveeta (right) from Equity Strippers, who go by pseudonyms to protect their identities, rally together to bring awareness about ICE and law enforcement wrongfully arresting consensual sex workers outside of San José McEnery Convention Center on the opening night of Super Bowl LX in San José on Feb. 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need to arrest somebody for prostitution to rescue them from a situation,” she said. “The sex industry has been taking care of people who are involved in forced labor or in danger for decades. We’ve never had to arrest anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, the San José Police Department said its Special Victims Unit uses a “victim-centered, trauma-informed approach to human trafficking enforcement” where individuals involved in prostitution are “treated as potential victims first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJPD did not respond to questions about overall prostitution arrest data and protocol for its Vice Unit, which the department’s website \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpd.org/about-us/organization/office-of-the-chief-of-police/special-investigations-unit\">lists\u003c/a> as the contact for prostitution-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said that deterrence and moral obligation matter more than statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it turns out there were no trafficking victims freed and not a trafficker found during the Super Bowl,” he said, “money well spent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, Csiky travels to Super Bowl host cities for outreach. Around a week before Super Bowl LX, she helped hand out booklets of photos at Santa Clara University featuring three dozen missing kids registered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who are believed to be at risk for exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of our event is to have people visit a convenience store, their regular gas station, bring in these books and get convenience stores to realize they are the eyes and ears of our community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072228\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Csiky, executive director of In Our Backyard, poses for a portrait in Santa Clara on Feb. 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Csiky, last year, 15 out of 36 missing children were recovered within a week of the Super Bowl in New Orleans, the result of coordinated efforts with the Center and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of investment that is provided at the time of these large events is hard to replicate at other times,” said Sharan Dhanoa, director of the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, one of several local nonprofits that recently received grants to combat the issue from the NFL through the Bay Area Host Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, her group and its crisis intervention partners served 361 survivors who met the federal definition of trafficking — that is, forced, fraudulent or coercive labor. Out of 1,800 youth screened for potential signs of trafficking, more than 300 were identified as a possible or clear concern\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10850616/super-bowl-week-puts-spotlight-on-increased-human-trafficking\">last time the Super Bowl\u003c/a> came to the Bay Area in 2016, more than a dozen pimps were arrested, and seven youth, as young as 14, several of whose parents had reported them missing, were reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-super-bowl-prostitution-sweep-20160209-story.html\">rescued\u003c/a> from sexual exploitation in the week leading up to the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.mccaininstitute.org/resources/reports/countering-human-trafficking-at-large-sporting-events/\">longstanding research \u003c/a>has not found a large surge in human trafficking during the Super Bowl — something experts posit could be associated with the temporarily heightened scrutiny and media attention — Dhanoa said the multi-jurisdictional cooperation and extra resources it attracts help combat the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got tens of thousands of people coming to the Bay Area from all over the United States and even other parts of the world,” said Jeff Rosen, district attorney for Santa Clara County. “You wouldn’t think that illegitimate businesses would also seek to profit from that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office is leading an anti-trafficking task force comprised of more than 50 law enforcement officers, crime analysts and prosecutors across the region’s nine counties to intercept exploiters through undercover stings, online investigations and lots of overtime. Social workers, nonprofit service providers, the FBI and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_0905_ops_sear-fact-sheet.pdf\">federal partners\u003c/a> support this effort, too, Rosen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the task force will prosecute traffickers and \u003cem>not\u003c/em> people selling sex — whether they are exploited or acting independently, though he said he believes the latter represent just a small proportion of those involved in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072226 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00067_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00067_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00067_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00067_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An umbrella reads, “ICE OUT, sex work in” during a rally to bring awareness about ICE and law enforcement wrongfully arresting consensual sex workers outside of San José McEnery Convention Center on the opening night of Super Bowl LX in San José on Feb. 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Dominique Roe-Sepowitz, director of Arizona State University’s Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention and Research, the number of “renegade” or independent sex workers — who have always operated without a pimp, for example — might be as low as 10%, with nine out of 10 people arrested on prostitution charges in Phoenix over a decade having been trafficked at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, operations framed as anti-trafficking tend to expose people selling sex — particularly migrants — to serious legal and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071370/as-bay-area-gears-up-to-host-super-bowl-lx-and-bad-bunny-halftime-show-fears-of-ice-loom\">immigration\u003c/a> risks, said Maxine Doogan, founder of the San Francisco-based Erotic Service Provider Legal, Education and Research Project, which aims to challenge stigmas about sex work and dismantle what the group considers harmful laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doogan said she worried that ahead of Super Bowl LX, local police departments’ vice squads would continue to enforce anti-prostitution laws on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00116_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00116_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00116_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00116_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maxine Doogan (left), an organizer from Stop the Raids, Reagan (center) and Velveeta (right) from Equity Strippers, who go by pseudonyms to protect their identities, rally together to bring awareness about ICE and law enforcement wrongfully arresting consensual sex workers outside of San José McEnery Convention Center on the opening night of Super Bowl LX in San José on Feb. 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need to arrest somebody for prostitution to rescue them from a situation,” she said. “The sex industry has been taking care of people who are involved in forced labor or in danger for decades. We’ve never had to arrest anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, the San José Police Department said its Special Victims Unit uses a “victim-centered, trauma-informed approach to human trafficking enforcement” where individuals involved in prostitution are “treated as potential victims first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJPD did not respond to questions about overall prostitution arrest data and protocol for its Vice Unit, which the department’s website \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpd.org/about-us/organization/office-of-the-chief-of-police/special-investigations-unit\">lists\u003c/a> as the contact for prostitution-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said that deterrence and moral obligation matter more than statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it turns out there were no trafficking victims freed and not a trafficker found during the Super Bowl,” he said, “money well spent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The lawsuit, filed by Jenin Younes, national legal director of the American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee, claims that \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB715/id/3269818\">AB 715\u003c/a>, which is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2026, is unconstitutionally vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real purpose of the bill is to chill the speech of teachers and students so that they’re afraid to talk about anything that could be deemed critical of Israel,” Younes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 715 adds to existing anti-discrimination state law through the creation of a governor-appointed Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator under a new California Office of Civil Rights. Proponents of AB 715 have said the coordinator will track antisemitic incidents at schools, help respond to cases and make policy recommendations to the state Legislature\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coordinator will also be tasked with training schools to identify antisemitism. 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More than half of the list cites Israel, such as “claiming the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” “applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation” and “accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier iterations of AB 715 echoed — and expanded — on the IHRA’s definition. According to those versions — later stricken — an antisemitic learning environment could mean classrooms where instruction or materials assert “dual loyalty directed at Jewish individuals or communities,” “inaccurate historical narratives such as labeling Israel a settler colonial state” or discriminating against a “nationality,” including “a social organization where a collective identity has emerged from a combination of shared features.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The earlier iterations were pretty crazy,“ said Younes, who has argued that the final version of AB 715 has the same effect “surreptitiously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been an incredibly frustrating process,” said David Bocarsly, executive director of the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California and one of the main backers of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bocarsly said the committee started off its efforts as California mandated new ethnic studies courses to ensure they didn’t include antisemitic content. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/10/school-antisemitism-bill-signed/\">After pushback from educators\u003c/a>, he said proponents decided to set their sights instead on protecting Jewish students more generally — in what eventually became AB 715. (A companion law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB48&showamends=false\">SB 48\u003c/a>, creates four similar coordinator positions for religion, race, gender and LGBTQ+ discrimination prevention.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>So, even this one bill that we asked to be focused just on the Jewish community because there was a particular acute need for our community, where there were opportunities to expand and support other vulnerable communities, we ultimately leapt at those opportunities,” Bocarsly said.[aside postID=news_12066489 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Peyrin-Kao-1-2-2000x1123.jpg']Teachers still weren’t on board with revisions to AB 715. In a statement, David Goldberg, president of the California Teachers Association, the union that represents teachers in the state, said the law “raises serious free speech concerns” and “at a time when too many are seeking to attack academic freedom and weaponize public education, AB 715 would unfortunately arm ill-intentioned people with the ability to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law allows the public to anonymously file complaints not just about teacher materials they believe are discriminatory, but also instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Anytime that I meet with more than two teachers who are ethnic studies teachers in a group, this is one of the things that comes up. It’s like, ‘Hey, no one knows all the things that’re happening to us, and no one is really helping us,’” said Jason Muñiz, who supports around 500 Bay Area teachers in ethnic studies each year as part of his work with the University of California at Berkeley’s History-Social Science Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñiz said dozens of teachers have described becoming the subject of legal inquiries, including public records requests, related to lessons that touch on Judaism, Islam or the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bocarsly acknowledged the pressure that academic institutions face, noting that JPAC has spoken out against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056118/uc-labor-groups-sue-trump-over-coercive-antisemitism-investigations-and-demands\">Trump administration’s attempts to use antisemitism legislation\u003c/a> as an excuse to cut school funding or diversity programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have gone through three different iterations of bills, have taken so many of [the educators’] recommendations, and they continue to move the goalposts and oppose everything that we do,” said Bocarsly, who considers the alleged lack of willingness to focus on Jewish student safety itself discrimination. “I think that there’s some implicit bias happening here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the state’s official response to the motion for an injunction, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has argued that AB 715 does not create a new, undefined type of civil rights violation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Teachers still weren’t on board with revisions to AB 715. In a statement, David Goldberg, president of the California Teachers Association, the union that represents teachers in the state, said the law “raises serious free speech concerns” and “at a time when too many are seeking to attack academic freedom and weaponize public education, AB 715 would unfortunately arm ill-intentioned people with the ability to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law allows the public to anonymously file complaints not just about teacher materials they believe are discriminatory, but also instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Anytime that I meet with more than two teachers who are ethnic studies teachers in a group, this is one of the things that comes up. It’s like, ‘Hey, no one knows all the things that’re happening to us, and no one is really helping us,’” said Jason Muñiz, who supports around 500 Bay Area teachers in ethnic studies each year as part of his work with the University of California at Berkeley’s History-Social Science Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñiz said dozens of teachers have described becoming the subject of legal inquiries, including public records requests, related to lessons that touch on Judaism, Islam or the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bocarsly acknowledged the pressure that academic institutions face, noting that JPAC has spoken out against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056118/uc-labor-groups-sue-trump-over-coercive-antisemitism-investigations-and-demands\">Trump administration’s attempts to use antisemitism legislation\u003c/a> as an excuse to cut school funding or diversity programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have gone through three different iterations of bills, have taken so many of [the educators’] recommendations, and they continue to move the goalposts and oppose everything that we do,” said Bocarsly, who considers the alleged lack of willingness to focus on Jewish student safety itself discrimination. “I think that there’s some implicit bias happening here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the state’s official response to the motion for an injunction, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has argued that AB 715 does not create a new, undefined type of civil rights violation. He has said that fears of unfounded discrimination claims could happen under existing law and are not enough reason to block AB 715.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066373/murder-trial-of-sf-filmmaker-kevin-epps-will-swing-on-question-of-self-defense\">San Francisco filmmaker and journalist Kevin Epps\u003c/a> on Monday was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, nine years after he fatally shot his former partner’s ex-brother-in-law during an altercation at his family’s Glen Park home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While prosecutors initially charged him with first-degree murder, the jury concluded that Epps did not act with malice but was still not justified to act in self-defense when he shot Marcus Polk on Oct. 24, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps was also found guilty of two counts of possession of a firearm as a felon, since he was barred from possessing the gun due to a nonviolent felony on his record from 15 years prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the verdict was read, Epps sobbed quietly into his hands. Some supporters also began to cry, and in the hallway outside, others alleged prosecutorial misconduct. They’ve said Epps was targeted for his race and background, and throughout the trial, urged District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to drop charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the courtroom, Epps’ spokesperson Julian Davis vowed to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prosecutor very deliberately misled this jury into drawing inferences that were not supported by the evidence at trial or facts known independently to him,” Davis said. “On appeal, there’s going to be very strong grounds for an overturning, even of this voluntary manslaughter conviction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12067218 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00239seqn_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00239seqn_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00239seqn_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00239seqn_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmmaker and journalist Kevin Epps (center) embraces children in his family at the Superior Court of San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2025, after a jury found him not guilty of the murder of Marcus Polk. A jury did find Epps guilty of voluntary manslaughter. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Epps shot Polk in the left arm and torso shortly after Polk entered the Glen Park residence of his ex-wife’s sister, Maryam Jhan. She lived in the home with her and Epps’ two children. Polk was unhoused and recently out of jail at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorneys said Epps, Jhan’s partner, also lived in the home, though prosecutors suggested during the trial that he had moved out months prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The house was a gathering place for Jhan’s extended family — her sister, Starr Gul, and the three children she had with Polk were often present. Prosecutors said Jhan also allowed Polk to come over to visit his children, take showers and watch television on a fairly regular basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night before the shooting, Polk showed up at the home late, banging on the door, before Epps turned him away. He returned the next day, high on methamphetamine and cannabis, and was again told to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he entered the house.[aside postID=news_12066373 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-02-KQED.jpg']Defense attorney Darlene Comstedt said Polk had barged into the home, acting “erratically” and threatening to “air out” Epps. He’d just gotten in a verbal altercation with maintenance workers out front. She argued that Epps was acting in self-defense when he opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk is a registered sex offender and had prior convictions for domestic abuse against Gul, lewd acts with a child, second-degree robbery and drug possession. But his criminal record was not permitted to be revealed to jurors after prosecutors argued that it did not have bearing on whether he was likely to commit homicidal violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During trial, prosecutors said that Polk didn’t pose an immediate threat of danger because he wasn’t armed, and that he was faced away from Epps when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than fear, Assistant District Attorney Jonathan Schmidt argued, Epps had been motivated by a simmering dispute between the men over Polk’s frequent visits to the house. Schmidt described Polk as a part of the family and said he had a friendly relationship with Jhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps’ arrest in connection with the shooting in 2016 was a shock for many San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had risen to local fame in the early 2000s for his series of documentaries on the experience of Black San Franciscans, including \u003cem>Straight Outta Hunter’s Point, \u003c/em>about the neighborhood where he grew up. He went on to work on a later film with acclaimed director Spike Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the shooting, then-District Attorney George Gascón elected not to charge Epps, saying there was insufficient evidence, but in 2019, he was arrested again and charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067217\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00174seqn_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00174seqn_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00174seqn_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-kevinepps00174seqn_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmmaker and journalist Kevin Epps (right) gets emotional while talking to press outside a courtroom at the Superior Court of San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2025, after a jury found him not guilty of the murder of Marcus Polk. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The charges were based on new three-dimensional computer-generated re-creations of the shooting that appeared to show Polk could have been facing away from Epps when he shot, throwing into question his self-defense claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The images were ultimately withdrawn over objections from the defense, but Gul — the sole witness of the shooting — corroborated the possibility in a preliminary hearing that year. During trial, her testimony was key to the prosecutors’ case, though under cross-examination, Comstedt questioned a number of changes to her recollection of the event over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps was granted bail in 2020, which is highly unusual in a murder case, after more than 600 people petitioned the court; a dozen others, including Jhan and Supervisor Matt Haney, wrote letters urging his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been out of custody most of the time he was awaiting trial. He currently serves as the executive editor of the \u003cem>San Francisco Bay View\u003c/em>, a publication focused on the Black community. Earlier this year, he won the Northern California Society for Professional Journalists’ Silver Heart Award for his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How long of a sentence Epps will face depends on the jury’s decision on several aggravating sentencing factors that the district attorney’s office plans to argue later Monday. A prior conviction could also double his sentence if it’s deemed a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voluntary manslaughter carries a sentence of up to 11 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dec. 17: This article was updated to clarify the relationship between Kevin Epps and multiple members of his family.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nine years after filmmaker and journalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12255111/kevin-epps-documentary-filmmaker-arrested-in-glen-park-homicide\">Kevin Epps\u003c/a> shot and killed a man in his San Francisco home, it is now up to a jury to decide whether the act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064918/supporters-rally-for-sf-filmmaker-kevin-epps-on-trial-for-murder-after-2016-shooting\">self-defense or murder\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the events that took place before Epps fatally shot Marcus Polk, his sister-in-law’s ex-husband, on Oct. 24, 2016, aren’t in question. Polk, who was unhoused and frequently visited his ex-wife, Starr Gul, and her kids at the house, was turned away at the door the night before the shooting. He returned the next day, inebriated, and entered the home despite being told again to leave. Moments later, Epps shot him twice, and he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, jurors will have to determine why Epps fired a gun at Polk that day. Over the monthlong trial, defense attorneys argued that Epps feared for his life and those of the four other people in the house, while the district attorney’s office has posited that Epps was motivated by growing tension over Polk’s frequent visits to the family’s Glen Park home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During closing statements on Monday, Epps’ attorney, Darlene Comstedt, told jurors that he was legally justified to act in self-defense after Polk entered the house, threatening him and neighborhood maintenance workers he’d just gotten into a spat with outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marcus Polk came at Kevin Epps in Kevin Epps’ home, and he shot in self-defense. He’s not guilty,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That narrative was widely accepted in the years after the shooting. Epps’ supporters say he is being targeted because of his race and background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-1536x966.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Superior Court of California and San Francisco City Hall. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though Epps was briefly arrested after the shooting, then-District Attorney George Gascón did not charge him, citing a lack of evidence. He wasn’t charged until three years later, after controversial 3D-generated images that recreated the shooting raised questions about the validity of Epps’ self-defense claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors now allege that Epps’ use of force wasn’t justifiable. Polk was unarmed, hadn’t been physically violent and was allegedly faced away from Epps when he was struck, Assistant District Attorney Jonathan Schmidt said in his closing argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a word, it just wasn’t necessary,” Schmidt said. He has posited that instead, Epps was motivated by malice. “Shooting over a verbal argument about when is a good time to visit is like amputating … for a paper cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Self-defense or malice?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The night before the shooting, on Oct. 23, 2016, witnesses say that Polk came to the house late after recently being jailed on a parole violation. After banging on the door, he was turned away by Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came back the following day under the influence of methamphetamine and cannabis, according to a toxicology report conducted after his death. He was again told to leave and appeared to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, though, Maryam Jhan, Epps’ partner, was alerted that Polk had gotten into an argument with two housing authority maintenance workers outside the home. They accused him of putting trash in another resident’s bin and told him to leave.[aside postID=news_12064918 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-KEVIN-EPPS-TRIAL-ADE-01-KQED.jpg']The argument drew Epps, Jhan and Gul outside. Jhan told the workers that Polk wasn’t her guest, and Epps and Gul again told Polk to leave, according to court documents. Then, Polk barged into the home and became “erratic,” threatening to “air out” Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense said Jhan went downstairs to call her neighbor for help while “the situation upstairs escalated, and Mr. Epps, believing his life and others’ lives to be in danger, fired two shots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk was shot from at least two feet away and struck in the left arm and left side of his torso, according to court filings. The prosecution said he was attempting to turn on the TV at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps has maintained that he shot in self-defense, and a witness testified that he said Polk “came at” him. California law allows people to use force intended to cause death against a person who unlawfully or forcefully enters their residence if they fear imminent danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in May 2019, San Francisco police arrested Epps based on new evidence that suggested Polk was facing away when he was shot, throwing into question whether his self-defense claim was justified. Epps was charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm as a felon. He had had multiple run-ins with law enforcement in his younger years and a prior nonviolent felony conviction from 2001, 15 years before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said three-dimensional computer-generated images revealed multiple scenarios that could have led up to the shooting, including one that showed Polk’s back to Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That narrative was corroborated by Gul, the shooting’s sole witness, who said in a 2019 preliminary hearing and again on the stand last month that Polk was standing in the living room facing the television when Epps shot from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3D image evidence was ultimately withdrawn over objections by the defense, and court records state that SFPD investigators determined that it wasn’t possible to trace the trajectory of the bullets, but Gul’s testimony has been key to the prosecution’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Competing narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the trial, Schmidt argued that the shooting was motivated by the “simmering dispute” between Epps and Polk over his frequent presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texts between Epps and Jhan appeared to highlight his dislike for the arrangement, and Polk’s daughter Melina, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, testified last month that Epps often seemed frustrated with his presence and complained that he didn’t “have any responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an irritant, but being an irritant doesn’t justify [deadly force],” Schmidt said during closing arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11145474\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11145474 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco filmmaker Kevin Epps was arrested in connection to a homicide in Glen Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/11145473-thumb-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco filmmaker Kevin Epps. \u003ccite>(Kevin Epps/Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schmidt described Polk as a regular at the Glen Park residence, where he often came to shower and hang out, since Gul and their children were often over at her sister’s home. He said he was familial with Jhan and Gul, and helped around the house, cleaning bathrooms and pitching in with housework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In closing statements, Schmidt said in the months before the shooting, Polk was visiting even more regularly. He alleged that Epps, on the other hand, had moved out of the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her closing statement, though, Comstedt insisted that Epps did live at the residence and highlighted more complicated family dynamics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the description of Polk as a “family man who’s present at Christmas celebrations … or births of kids … might have been true at one time, but not in 2016.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk was a methamphetamine user, and it wasn’t uncommon for him to be turned away from the house, Melina testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has prior convictions for domestic abuse against Gul, as well as for lewd acts with a child, second-degree robbery and drug possession, according to court documents published by Mission Local. He is a registered sex offender. His criminal history was not permitted to be revealed to the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comstedt also said Gul was contradicted by evidence and by her own previous statements on the events that led to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the course of her multi-day testimony, Gul changed her description of how Epps and Polk were standing when Epps fired the gun. She first indicated that the men were facing each other head-on after the first shot was fired, but after repeated questioning, she told prosecutors that Polk was angled slightly away, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-kevin-epps-murder-eyewitness-starr-gul/\">\u003cem>Mission Local \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gul also offered a different description of how she acted when Polk came into the house. In prior interviews, she said she had told Polk to leave, but on the stand, she said she was silent when he came inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in one of the biggest revelations of her testimony, Gul alleged for the first time publicly that during the altercation the night before the shooting, Epps pulled a gun on Polk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was new,” Comstedt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comstedt closed by reiterating that Epps was reasonably afraid of death or bodily injury when he shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community calls for justice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the years since his arrest and throughout the trial, Epps has garnered strong community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the shooting, he’d risen to local fame for his series of documentaries about the experience of Black San Franciscans, including \u003cem>Straight Outta Hunters Point \u003c/em>(2003), which highlighted the poverty, violence and struggles of the neighborhood where he grew up.[aside postID=news_12065877 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-VALLEYFAIRCHARGE-JG-3_qed.jpg']In 2020, more than 600 people signed a petition urging a judge to allow him bail, and dozens of letters, including from Supervisor Matt Haney and Jhan, requested the same. When Judge Christine Van Aken granted that request, which is highly unusual in a murder case, supporters helped raise $250,000 for his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last month, Epps received the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists’ Silver Heart award, and during his trial, supporters have rallied outside the courthouse on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I know that Kevin is a very honorable man,” Carol McGruder, a longtime friend, said during a rally on Nov. 20. “I don’t think that he’s just shooting and killing people for no good reason at all. It’s a tragic event, but I’m here to support him. He is a valued community member, a father and we want to get this behind us, have justice and have him be exonerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think we really need to question when prosecutors decide to bring someone like Kevin Epps to trial, if they have a problem accepting that somebody with his background, with his color skin from the neighborhood that he’s from, acted in self-defense instead of malice,” said Julian Davis, a spokesperson for Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During prosecutors’ final statements before the jury on Tuesday, more than a dozen supporters gathered in the courtroom. Throughout the proceedings, a few got up and left the courtroom while yelling out in protest, alleging “prosecutorial misconduct” and “lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The argument drew Epps, Jhan and Gul outside. Jhan told the workers that Polk wasn’t her guest, and Epps and Gul again told Polk to leave, according to court documents. Then, Polk barged into the home and became “erratic,” threatening to “air out” Epps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense said Jhan went downstairs to call her neighbor for help while “the situation upstairs escalated, and Mr. Epps, believing his life and others’ lives to be in danger, fired two shots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk was shot from at least two feet away and struck in the left arm and left side of his torso, according to court filings. The prosecution said he was attempting to turn on the TV at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epps has maintained that he shot in self-defense, and a witness testified that he said Polk “came at” him. 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