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Print When the video emerged of police officers repeatedly punching a homeless Black man they had pinned down on a La Jolla street last week, it had the makings of one of those flashpoints that could trigger law enforcement reforms. The incident is under investigation, but for some time a consensus has been growing to change police duties related to San Diego’s homeless population. Advocates for “reimagining” public safety, police officials and the city police union say officers shouldn’t be the regular first responders to situations involving homeless people, except when violence has...

LA JOLLA — An attorney has agreed to represent a homeless Black man who was punched and arrested by two San Diego police officers in La Jolla last week, and both she and an activist working with the man said Tuesday they are pressing for prosecutors to decline to bring criminal charges in the case. A bystander recorded cellphone footage of the arrest of Jesse Evans near a busy intersection near UC San Diego on the morning of May 12. Evans said two police officers stopped him as he unclasped his pants to urinate close to some trees. The confrontation escalated and Evans was wrestled to the...

A judge will determine if defense attorneys can use Ahmaud Arbery’s mental health records to help absolve his alleged killers during their respective murder trials later this year. Superior Court Judge Timothy R. Wamsley, the judge presiding over all three cases, heard two days of arguments May 12 and 13 in a Brunswick courtroom. It was a pivotal hearing in the cases against the three white men accused of hunting Arbery down and killing him. William “Roddie” Bryan, Greg McMichael, 65, and his 35-year-old son Travis face life in prison without the possibility of parole if they’re convi...

Video shows a black, homeless man in a confrontation with several police officers in La Jolla Wednesday

NBC 7's Rory Devine shares witness video of an arrest in a La Jolla intersection. The Police Department has announced an internal investigation into the arrest. According to SDPD officials, the two officers, whose names have not been released, contacted Evans in the 4100 block of Torrey Pines Road about 9 a.m. Wednesday after seeing him urinating outdoors. On Friday, Evans denied publicly urinating in the coastal neighborhood near Scripps Institution of Oceanography, though he admitted that he was preparing to when the lawmen approached. While saying he forgave the officers for what ha...