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Harding death report doesn’t hold water

I take exception to reports describing Kenneth Harding lying dead on the Bayview sidewalk. I have reviewed at least five videos which document him laying face down in a pool of blood and arching his neck in an attempt to breathe.San Francisco police officers are trained in CPR, emergency airway management and first aid. A simple and humane maneuver might have been to simply roll him over on his back and apply a compression dressing to the wound in his neck. Read More

Were Harding brothers’ rap lyrics true to life — and death?

The Harding brothers were gangsta rappers who apparently walked the talk.Two years ago, Seattle residents Ondrell Harding, his little brother Kenneth and their mother, Denika Chatman, ran a record label and were working to establish a music distribution deal with San Francisco-based SMC Recordings. Read More

San Francisco police release photo of gun Kenneth Harding used in Bayview shootout

Kenneth Harding gun used in Bayview shootout
San Francisco police on Thursday released a photo of the gun allegedly used to fire at officers by Kenneth Harding July 16 in the Bayview District. Read More

Brother of man killed in Bayview arrested in connection with Seattle murder

San Francisco crime
The brother of a man killed in a recent shooting that involved San Francisco police in the city’s Bayview district has been arrested in connection with a murder in Seattle, police said today. Ondrell Harding, 21, was arrested Tuesday night south of Seattle as a suspect in the beating death of a 50-year-old man in Seattle on Saturday, Seattle police Detective Mark Jamieson said. Read More

Details on SFPD-involved Bayview shooting do little to ease skepticism

Bayview shooting
The story of the officer-involved shooting that roiled the Bayview in recent weeks has only grown more complicated with each new fact released. Although police Chief Greg Suhr has emphasized transparency during his new administration, the  department’s incremental release of information may actually have stoked anger over the incident. Read More

Family of Kenneth Harding hires Oakland attorney John Burris

Bayview shooting
The family of Kenneth Harding, who died during an alleged firefight with cops in the Bayview on July 16, has tapped Oakland attorney John Burris to represent them, the lawyer said in a statement Monday. Read More

Missing gun complicates SFPD's investigation into Bayview shooting

When a 19-year-old black man was shot to death in a firefight after allegedly firing at two police officers July 16, somebody collected much of the available evidence — and it wasn’t a cop. Video shows a young man in a gray striped hooded sweatshirt picking up an item that police call the gun of Kenneth Harding Jr. Police say Harding’s cellphone and several shell casings also disappeared. Read More

UPDATE: San Francisco police now say man killed in Bayview Saturday died of self-inflicted wound

San Francisco Bayview shooting press conference
A man who was thought to have died from an officer-involved shooting in San Francisco last weekend appears instead to have been killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, investigators revealed Thursday.Kenneth Harding Jr., a 19-year-old Seattle resident, allegedly ran from officers who had attempted to detain him Saturday for fare evasion at a San Francisco Municipal Railway light-rail stop at Third Street and Palou Avenue. Read More

Bayview residents shout down San Francisco police Chief Greg Suhr

San Francisco Bayview residents
Police Chief Greg Suhr was met with a hail of boos, jeers and curses by members of the Bayview community Wednesday night, prompting an early end to a planned dialogue about Saturday’s fatal shooting of an armed parolee by officers. Read More

More than half of arrested Muni shooting protesters live outside San Francisco

Bayview officer-involved shooting protests
UPDATE: Police released information at 3:05 p.m. revising the number of arrests at Monday's protest in San Francisco to 43. Of the 43 people cited during a protest in San Francisco on Tuesday, 17 were city residents, police said Wednesday. Read More
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