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The San Diego County District Attorney's Office has cleared nine local police officers of potential criminal liability in use-of-force incidents, including two...

O'Melveny & Myers has recruited David Harbach, a veteran prosecutor of high-profile public corruption cases, who recently returned from two years of investigating war crimes in The Hague, the firm said Wednesday.

Steven Olson lingered in a decades-long cycle of arrests, jail, hospitals and release before being fatally shot by police

Updated on June 23, 2021 at 8:15 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Steven Olson, Alfred Olango, Dennis Carolino -- three local men who were experiencing mental health episodes when they were killed by police. The shootings were followed by protests, calling for change and accountability within police departments. But years after Alfred Olango’s death, his sister, Lucy, is still struggling with the reality that her call to 911 might have ultimately cost him his life. She didn’t know it, but when Olango...

The mergers, acquisitions and deals you may have missed the week of May 10, 2021. Several deals hit the wire this week.  Canadian serial RIA acquirer CI Financial announced that it entered the San Diego market, adding Dowling & Yahnke, an RIA with $5.6 billion in assets under management, to its portfolio. An LPL Financial office of supervisory jurisdiction with $3 billion in AUM acquired U.S. Financial Advisors in Braintree, Mass. The firm manages about $750 million in client asse...

Police can edit evidence but are obliged to stay truthful over fear of lawsuits. Author: Jack Molmud (KFMB), Jesse Pagan Published: 6:51 PM PDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 7:21 PM PDT May 11, 2021 SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Escondido Police Officer Chad Moore’s body camera recorded the moments he shot and killed homeless resident Steven Olson in Escondido the morning of April 21, 2021. The public got a chance to view that footage eight days later wh...

SAN DIEGO — On Friday morning, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging four former Minneapolis police officers with violating the civil rights of George Floyd, whose death last May set off months of nationwide protests. Among the charges in the indictment is an allegation that two of the former officers, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, violated Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure because they did not intervene to stop their colleague, Derek Chauvin, as he knelt ...

“Steve did not deserve what happened to him last week,” said Yusef Miller, homeless activist. Family members were joined by homeless advocates, friends and other Escondido community members for a candlelight vigil at West 2nd Avenue and Broadway, where Steven Olson was killed. “He fell on some hard times. He was down the wrong path but nothing he did deserve this kind of treatment,” Nicholas Olson said. Many people in this group have protested in front of the police department several t...

Capuano says she supports the police and knows they have a tough job. Some of her customers are Escondido Police officers, but she wishes the officer would have tried a different approach on April 21, like deploying a police K-9 to stop Olson in his tracks. In the video released by Escondido Police, a police K-9 is heard barking in the background. “A taser gun might be better,” said Hector Rodriguez, who told NBC 7 the officer didn’t exercise other options. “The force that he used com...