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Officer won't face charges in killing mentally ill Black man

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By Don Thompson
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former police officer already imprisoned for one fatal shooting in a wealthy San Francisco suburb won't face criminal charges in a second slaying, this one of a homeless Black man who asked the officer to kill him during a 30-second confrontation, a prosecutor said Friday.
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Officer won't face charges in killing mentally ill Black man

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By Don Thompson
| TimesDaily Verified
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former police officer already imprisoned for one fatal shooting in a wealthy San Francisco suburb won't face criminal charges in a second slaying, this one of a homeless Black man who asked the officer to kill him during a 30-second confrontation, a prosecutor said Friday. kAmr@?EC2 r@DE2 s:DEC:4E pEE@C?6J s:2?2 q64E@? D2:5 D96 H@?VE D66< E@ ECJ 7@C>6C s2?G:==6 @77:46C p?5C6H w2== :? E96 562E9 @7 %JC6== (:=D@?[ H9@ H2D 9@=5:?8 2 <?:76 2E E96 E:>6 @7 E96:C 4@?7C@?E2E:@? :?
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Officer won't face charges in killing mentally ill Black man

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By Don Thompson
| KRDO-TV (Colorado Springs, CO) Verified
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former police officer already imprisoned for one fatal shooting in a wealthy San Francisco suburb won’t face criminal charges in a second slaying. Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton said Friday that she won’t charge former Danville officer Andrew Hall in the death of a homeless Black man who asked the officer to kill him during a 30-second confrontation.
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California Tells Auto Insurers to Disclose Pandemic Profits

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By Don Thompson, Levi Pulkkinen Verified, Elliott Davis Verified
| U.S. News and World Report Verified
By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s insurance commissioner on Thursday ordered nearly 50 auto insurers to provide detailed information about their claim costs during the pandemic, his latest attempt to compensate consumers he says were overcharged as traffic virtually disappeared when the nation’s largest insurance market imposed the first U.S. coronavirus stay-home order. Commissioner Ricardo Lara gave California's major insurers 30 days to respond.
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California utility targeted Asians in pot searches

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By Don Thompson
| WFMZ-TV (Allentown, PA) Verified
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Extraordinary use of electricity has long been a telltale sign of illegal grow houses producing thousands of marijuana plants hidden in seemingly ordinary homes. But a lawsuit filed by a data privacy watchdog says a Northern California utility went too far by racially profiling Asian communities as it routinely fed customers' power use information to police without requiring a warrant or any suspicion of wrongdoing, in violation of state laws.
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