Bryan Carmody

FILE - In this May 21, 2019, file photo, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott speaks during a news conference in San Francisco. The union representing San Francisco police officers is calling for its chief to resign over his handling of the police raid of a freelance journalist's home and office. Chief Scott acknowledged Friday, May 24, that the searches were probably illegal and apologized for the way his department handled the investigation into who leaked a confidential police report to Bryan Carmody. The police union fired back on Saturday, May 25, saying Scott ordered the investigation, knew Carmody was a journalist and deceived the sergeant who wrote the search warrant. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
May 25, 2019 - 4:09 pm

Police Union Calls On San Francisco Chief To Quit

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The union representing San Francisco police officers demanded Saturday that its chief resign, accusing him of blaming officers for raids that he ordered to determine who leaked a police report to a freelance journalist. Chief William Scott acknowledged Friday that the searches...
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San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott on May 21, 2019 discussed the raid of the home of a freelance journalist.
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Jenna Lane
May 21, 2019 - 9:05 pm

Police Suspect Journalist Conspired To Steal Report About Adachi, Chief Says

San Francisco’s police chief is trying to explain the May 10 raids of a journalist’s home and office that First Amendment advocates have called illegal.
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Attorney Thomas Burke, right, answers questions about his client Bryan Carmody, a freelance journalist whose home and office were raided by San Francisco police.
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Jenna Lane
May 21, 2019 - 11:28 am

San Francisco Police Will Return Property Seized From Journalist

San Francisco police officials will return the files, electronics and other materials that cops seized from a freelance journalist in a controversial raid on his home, an attorney for the department said on Tuesday.
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San Francisco mayor London Breed speaks to reporters after meeting with first responders during an emergency preparedness meeting on July 12, 2018 in San Francisco.
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Margie Shafer
May 20, 2019 - 2:23 pm

Mayor Breed Changes Her View On Raid Of Journalist's Home

The debate over a police raid of a San Francisco freelance journalist's home in the wake of a leaked police report has taken some new political twists.
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San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott.
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Matt Bigler
May 16, 2019 - 9:22 am

Police Chief Stands By Raid Of Journalist's Home

San Francisco Police Chief William Scott defended the department's raid of a freelance journalist's home last week under intense questioning from the city's police commission on Wednesday.
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