San Francisco Bay Area police are investigating the shooting of at least one man at a shopping mall outside San Jose on Saturday evening.
Employees and customers inside the Great Mall in Milpitas were asked to shelter in place as officers responded to the situation, according to the Milpitas Police Department. Search teams are systematically searching all stores that were sheltering in place, and will be escorting employees and customers out into the parking lot, Milpitas Police said in a tweet. Officers and detectives remain on scene and are actively investigating this incident.
Santa Clara County Sheriff officers investigate a shooting at the Great Mall in Milpitas, California on Saturday
Advocates call for jails to do better to stop COVID spread among inmates
Advocates call for jails to do better to stop COVID spread among inmates
While COVID cases are spiking throughout the Bay Area, they are also on the rise inside some county jails. Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are dealing with active outbreaks.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - While COVID cases are spiking throughout the Bay Area, they are also on the rise inside some county jails. Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are dealing with active outbreaks.
Some families and advocates feel there s not enough being done to keep inmates safe.
December 18, 2020 GMT
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday it is looking into photos posted on Facebook that show at least three of its correctional deputies at an indoor party last weekend with little to no mask wearing or social distancing and where partygoers shared a beer bong.
The photos surfaced as the county is seeing a sharp rise in COVID-19 infections in the general population and also among sheriff’s office staff and jail inmates.
The Mercury News reported Thursday that more than 30 photographs and videos were posted from the Dec. 6 party on a jail deputy’s profile that was registered under an alias. Dec. 6 was the same day that Santa Clara County went into a lockdown, which prohibited people from gathering with others outside of their own household.
REVEALED: One in five inmates has been infected with coronavirus and 1,736 have died as photos emerge of California jail staff partying without masks or social distancing
More than 276,000 prisoners at the state and federal level has contracted coronavirus, meaning the infection rate is one in five
At least 1,736 have died of COVID-19, indicating the mortality rate is 45% higher than the national rate
This week, more than 25,000 new infections were recorded, the highest number since the pandemic began
South Dakota has the highest rate of infected prisoners at 6,228 per 10,000, followed by Arkansas and Kansas
Nationwide, one in five prison staff members have tested positive with a morality rate of 0.1%