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that this disturbs them, it's gruesome. >> tonight we are hearing from one community organizer about her encounter with a police who's facing a misdemeanor charge in an assault by a public officer. nikki for joining us. >> matthew nole has been fired for violating the use of force policy. dan: we are seeing video of the traffic stop that it all stems from. our abc7news reporter has a story.
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>> stop resisting. >> i'm not resisting. i will get in the car, i will get in the car. >> antioch police say it was a routine traffic stop. the driver pulled over for no plates, but the situation quickly escalated with antioch police officer taking down the passenger. >> i'm having a panic attack. >> you need to relax. >> ok. >> i will put you down again. the way i took you down now, i will take you down again. stand up and get in the car. >> the passenger was arrested for an outstanding felony warrant and the man refused to sit in their police car but in the investigation they found the officer's use of force involved punches, kicks and knee and elbow strikes, all in violation of department protocol. quakes i think just any person, not necessarily a police officer, who observed that
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video, there's some things that could be interpreted as concerning. certainly i was concerned with what i saw. >> the analyte -- antioch police chief said use of force automatically triggers an investigation in california state law requires body cam footage to be released. but the community organizer said she is not surprised. >> it wasn't surprising, i have had countless interactions with this officer, he is known to be a bit aggressive towards community members. >> for the past few years she has been trying to draw attention allegations of use of force by antioch police. she saw the video and says she is concerned that others didn't attempt to stop it. >> because that's what happened in the video. there was no sources of de-escalation and he was literally attacking this person. >> records don't show the officer being involved in the texting scandal, but they do mention sergeant josh evans.
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the text messages attributed to evans, he was also on scene at the traffic stop, though it's tough to see where he was during the confrontation, the chief said he still being investigated. quick sergeant evans level of responsibility, i think what we are of -- referring to an accountability to manage that within the confines of the law and our policies, all of that will be determined very shortly. >> the officer will be arraigned in july on one misdemeanor count of assault by public officer. arrested a man they say is responsible for two mass shootings in the bay area. san francisco police believe xavier is responsible for shooting at least nine people in the mission district. the shooting happened near the corner of 24th entry avenue on friday. campos is wanted for a mass shooting at a music video set in oakland in january. the shooting happened at a gas station and left one man dead
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and six others injured. there's a warning from the front lines of the fentanyl crisis and concerns that drug users could set off even more drug overdose deaths. this comes a san francisco ramps up efforts to crack down on open-air drug markets. our abc7news reporter has been following the drug overdose crisis, she is in the newsroom with the story tonight. >> i have been out on the streets the past few weeks speaking to everyone from dealers to users and those helping them get into recovery. and today i spoke with a mother whose son is addicted to fentanyl. all of them expressing concerns over this latest approach for the overdose crisis. tensions are running high on the streets. police now are resting drug users. quakes it makes everybody pit stop. >> california highway patrol in the california national guard are teaming up with the sfpd to get drug dealers and users off the streets. quakes whether or not you want to call this the war on drugs,
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when you are prioritizing a approach to people who use drugs, it does not work. quakes gary mccoy's with health right 360, 1 of the nonprofits the city relies on to help people get off the streets and into recovery. quakes what happens when they leave as they will immediately go back out, they will find more drugs, except now they are going to be -- for fear of being caught, they will use more drugs, they will be using more at one so that they're not having to use as frequently in the open. quakes it brings a lot of fear and anxiety. >> jackie berlin knows this all too well, her son is on the streets addicted to fentanyl. quakes in some respects it can be more dangerous for these addicts because they might take the first thing they run into, where normally they might take a little more precaution. >> while drug users are being offered treatment services in jail, so far the city says nobody has accepted it.
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here's the mayor talking with abc7news last week. >> out of those 25 people arrested and the ones who were released, the ones who didn't have warrants, none of them except -- accepted the services we were offering. >> the city plans to continue making arrests. >> there comes a time where people are not accepting these services, we can't just allow what we see on our streets to continue. >> jackie berlin said she liked to see more action, making services more easily acceptable. >> having resources acceptable 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a lot of times the times that someone is willing to go get help is when they are cold at night or not in the middle of the day. >> a balanced approach would be enforce existing laws with the opportunity for people to go into a center that's open 24 hours a day to get help. >> mccoy is talking about with the city dubs as wellness hubs which could house safe consumption sites.
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>> off the streets, out of public visibility, doing it under visibility -- supervision. >> the mayor has pump the brakes on opening the hub, citing legal concerns, safe consumption sites are still legal under federal law but the mayor does support the new york model where a nonprofit is operating to safe consumption sites using private donations, not taxpayer dollars, in theory, making the city less liable in nonprofits like health right 360 are raising those private funds, gearing up to open safe consumption sites once the city is ready to move forward. >> the national guard is looped in an chp and we are still not opening a wellness. >> it is important to note that the mayor says she is committed to opening up to three wellness hubs in this city and does have the funding in her proposed two-year budget along with other investments into treatment and recovery services. ama: thank you so much.
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the california highway patrol's investigation -- investigating a berkeley freeway that targeted caltrans workers. more than a dozen ldscaping employees were working near the university avenue offramp from westbound 81 a happen. investigorsay the psenger in a crown victoria stuck aun out the window and started shoong the shooter fired at least two rounds before the driver sped away. chp says a motive for the shooting is unclear. >> firefighters are still monitoring hotspots after a big fire in a storage facility. it happen t public storage on blossom hill. one person is in custody. our abc7news reporter has the story. >> look. >> dark, black smoke and flames billowing out of a san jose storage facility wednesday afternoon. arson investigators are looking into the cause and san jose fire officials tell us police have arrested a person of interest.
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he heard a massive e that sent -- miles away. >> across the street from henry's neighborhoods, the aftermath of the explosion on blossom hill, the debris spread across the company -- property as people came to see what happened to their units. >> i have antiques, a 130-year-old piano. that's not too far from the door. >> we were trying to move up to the sacramento area. we put everything in their for the meantime. i've seen the drone footage. i talked to the chief. it is very unlikely that anything made it through. >> drone view shows san jose is continuing to put out hotspots throughout the morning as the battalion chief says that two-story buildings is a total loss in several of the
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surrounding units suffered serious damage due to flames, smoke and water. they were unable to get onto the property until the afternoon. the cause of the fast spreading fire is under investigation. >> fireworks going off during the fire will contribute to that. what actually -- actually was first we haven't determined. >> he says it's a relief to hear someone is in custody but says nothing can replace wiki and his girlfriend lost. >> we are both pretty speechless. i've got to stay strong for her but help her through all of this. that's all i can do, she's pretty distraught and i'm not looking forward to how my daughter will take everything. >> it's unknown when people can get back to the property to retrieve any items. dustin dorsey, abc7news. ama: still ahead, a war of words between the mlb commissioner and the mayor of oakland as reaction pours it in is the a's likely move to vegas. >> a piece of created by
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ama: late news from nevada. 10 minutes ago the governor's office announced he has signed the bill that will fund a new a stadium on the las vegas strip. dan: this comes one day after the nevada state senate and assembly passed it. it's up to major league baseball owners to ok the move. >> the oakland mayors pushing back against the commissioner of major league baseball after he said oakland never had a plan to build a stadium. dan: ryan curry has reaction. >> the oakland a's plan move to las vegas is now one step closer to completion. wednesday the nevada legislator approved public funding for a new stadium in las vegas. it just needs the governor's signature.
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now, the baseball commissioner says he feels sorry for a's fans. the stadium in oakland was never proposed. >> there is no oakland offeror. they never got to the point where they had a plan to build a stadium at any site. >> he joined us on midday live, pushing back. she said they were close to finalizing a deal on a stadium in oakland. >> is totally false, there was a concrete proposal under discussion in oakland had gone above and beyond to clear every hurdle that the ownership was put in front of us. >> the signs read in big boy letters rooted in oakland since 1968 but for some fans a reality started to settle in that they would be uprooted, replanted in las vegas. >> a major disappointment. my parents have been taking me to ball games for the last 53 years. >> one c signs the bill, the a's will file for relocation and a move would have to be approved
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by other mlb owners. there is an effort to help oakland and alameda counter in the event the a's to leave. the east bay congress members proposed a bill that would require the a's to pay local authorities for the previous 10 years of taxes once they move. >> that would be the city of oakland, the county of alameda to the school districts, and then they would have to pay that equivalent amount for 10 years going forward. >> the act would remove a decades a rule exempting it from antitrust laws. the congress member said billionaire sports owner should not be allowed to reap tax benefits for years and leave without consequence. >> we feel that unfortunately, baseball teams and ownership like the a's take advantage and make states and local cities compete against one another to the disadvantage of the taxpayers. >> it has not been set yet. in the meantime, fans try to
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enjoy as many gains -- as many games in oakland as they can. dan: lawmakers in sacramento passed a budget but work is not done. the senate and assembly passed a spending measure with every democrat voting for and every republican against. today, june 15 is the state constitutional deadline for lawmakers to pass the budget. if they don't, they don't get paid, according to the san francisco chronicle, negotiations continue on key issues like transit funding. governor newsom has until june 30 to sign it. >> california tate hotline received 180 reports in the first month since it was launched, including 28 from the bay area. race and ethnicity where the most reported following religious and sexual orientation. nearly half accepted ongoing support. it's a place in more than 40% of california's counties. state officials launched the
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dan: in east bay movie theater is closing its doors for good after 88 years in business. the theater will go dark after its last movie showings. tonight, members of the community say this news comes as a real shock. some left farewell notes. >> everybody that we talk to is sad. i've had people coming up to me because they know i live across the street saying, are they really closing. dan: it's owned and operated by landmark theaters. san francisco chronicle reports a landmark spokesperson says is
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constantly evaluating its business strategy and has decided to close. it is just one of many theaters in the bay area to close. yesterday we reported cinemark century, san francisco at the westfield mall announced it will close after its final round of films today. changing times. ama: a nice day for the hammock, maybe the beach. >> our meat -- dan: our meteorologist is here. >> a look at the live picture, take your hammock out, go to the beach, it is beautiful in santa cruz, there is fog up plenty of sun, temperatures came up, low 60's, numbers and the low 80's, a couple of degrees warmer for most of you compared to yesterday, high-pressure coming in and as it has been getting closer to the bay area, a north wind allowing for the warmth to
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develop, isolated thunderstorms. as we look at live doppler seven, patchy fog remains near the coast. we will continue to see the advancement like we have seen across the bay. as we check out those temperatures 80's in inland, 50's just a beautiful spring day getting closer to average. gusts of 35 miles per hour in oakland. onshore winds sustained at 34. this is what's keeping the temperatures in check. we don't have extreme heat in the bay area. just a little warmer, live tower cam for use showing you partial there in santa cruz. emeryville looking at oakland downtown, blue skies. beautiful view. spring warmth holds through saturday, it will turn windy and cooler for father's day. let's talk about the father's day forecast. dads deserve only the best. 7:00 in the morning we will have the fog. 50's and 60's on temperatures. sunny bay in inland at noontime, some fog will hang around into
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the afternoon and then the winds will really get going. it will be gusty, upper 50's to low 80's, winds will remain on the gusty side at 7:00 so make sure dad has a windbreaker if you have outdoor plants. 6:00, 70's and then, 50's cosigned by 8:00 p.m., while inland but along the coast you need a sweater. patchy fog around the bayside communities. around the coast you see more fog and then that fog will pull back to the coast. inland areas by the lunch hour in the 70's. 3:00 p.m. you see 80's there in the inland communities. morning temperatures in the 50's, watch out for fog tomorrow afternoon. it's a nice day, warm inland to low to mid 80's. breezy, accuweather 7-day forecast in just a moment, we will show you the changes in the form of windy weather sunday, the winds pick up and that
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really continues through juneteenth with 85, 40 mile-per-hour wind gust. accuweather 7-day forecast, nice heading into the weekend, cooler for father's day and windy and gusty for juneteenth as summer arrives on wednesday. we see temperatures go up, at least for a day. we care for all those who make your family, well, your family. that's why all of us work together to give them the care, and caring, that any family would. kaiser permanente. for all that is you.
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dan: chatgpt's seat the biggest thing since the iphone. ama: the only way that could be true is if it could somehow make a pizza. lauren martinez found one san jose pizzeria put to the test. >> for gen albus pizza and pasta have served classic italian recipes in the south bay, now they are serving a pizza recipe generated by chatgpt. >> to a father's day pizza for me, about 10 seconds and it whipped it out. >> the ai chatbot created a pizza loaded with different meats like pepperoni, bacon, sausage and the father's day classic. >> the fact that kyle -- called out memphis barbecue sauce. >> it has been fun seeing two worlds come together. >> this is pretty cool because
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it probably just grabbed a lot of things out there on the web and just put it together. >> those in the younger generation are ordering the ai pizza. >> some of the older ones, and say, i want one of those pizzas. >> is tech expert says one's companies add the word ai to anything, people will pay attention. >> i can use it with companies like gm, i can use it with companies that are sending rockets to space. it is the catalyst for change in the catalyst for better services. >> at tony and albert's pizza and pasta -- albus pizza ends up it represents what her parents started. something ai can't change. >> it won't come out to be the personalities that the owners have and the love of the customers. it will just never happen like
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that. >> eai pizza will be available on father's day and the entire month of june. lauren martinez, abc7news. dan: it can come up with a recipe but it can't toss it. karina nova for a look at stories coming up at 5:30. >> rit mayor porter updates us on a problematic piece of land in the city's mission district. now there's more evidence of alleged harassment and property damage in the area where people are asking the city to get involved and solve the issue. our climate and environment producer explains the restoration happening along the sonoma coast. the goal, to rescue an underwater forest critical to marine life. join us for those stories and more at at 5:30. and you can download the abc 7 app or head to abc7news.com to join karina. dan: world news tonight with
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