News summary 2017-04-23

Police beat black man crossing the street (it is amazing what Sacramento gains national notoriety for)

• Black man beaten by officer filing suit alleging abuse by police, jail deputies (SacBee 2017-04-23)
• More video released of police beating in Del Paso Heights (SacBee 2017-04-21)
• Sacramento man punched by police officer hires lawyer, prepares lawsuit (SacBee 2017-04-20)
• California Walks & WALKSacramento Denounce Violent Arrest of Nandi Cain, Jr. in Sacramento (WALKSacramento 2017-04-19)
• Time to Eliminate “Jaywalking” as a Crime (Streetsblog California 2017-04-19)
• Police: Jaywalking tickets that largely cited black people part of traffic safety plan (SacBee 2017-04-19)
• What Sacramento’s jaywalking tickets tell us about justice or lack of it (SacBee 2017-04-18)
• Jack Ohman: Sacramento jaywalking and the dream… (SacBee 2017-04-17)
• Video of police officer punching jaywalker brings unexpected sentiment: Hope (SacBee 2017-04-15)
• ‘Racial profiling’? Jaywalking tickets disproportionately given to black people in Sacramento (SacBee 2017-04-14)
• The jaywalker brutalized by Sacramento police was stopped for nothing at all (Streetsblog 2017-03-13)
• Video sparks probe of Sacramento officer’s takedown of man crossing street (SacBee 2017-04-11)
• California officer seen on video punching jaywalker in face (SacBee 2017-04-11)

Other

• Concrete sidewalks to replace worn-out wooden boardwalk in Old Sacramento (SacBee 2017-04-23)
• Need a ride? Bike-share coming to Sacramento, West Sacramento and Davis (SacBee 2017-04-21)
• RT wants residents to tell them what they want from light rail, buses (SacBee 2017-04-20)
• Sacramento leaders offer city streets as testing ground for driverless cars (SacBee 2017-04-20)
• Disabled placards for thousands of dead Californians part of program abuse (SacBee2017-04-19)
• Could ‘micro-apartments’ be downtown Sacramento’s answer to high rents? (SacBee 2017-04-17)
• What happens when you temporarily close a city street to cars and open it up to the community? (City of Sacramento 2017-04-11)