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		<title>Witnesses recall red van tailing Marcus Russell in days before his murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the days before he was shot and killed while driving his grandmother’s Nissan Maxima on I-580, Marcus Russell was nervous about simmering neighborhood tensions and a red minivan that seemed to be following him around Richmond, Russell’s friends and family testified in Contra Costa County Court Thursday. “You know your children,” Faith Russell, Marcus’...]]></description>
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		<title>Plaintiffs cite cliques, exclusion in Magnus descrimination suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Waldholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cliques, rumors, exclusion: those words came up again and again on Wednesday during testimony in the racial discrimination suit against the city and police Chief Chris Magnus.
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		<title>Witness describes shooting, 2009 death of Marcus Russell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the red van pulled alongside their driver’s side door, the long barrel of an assault rifle was jutting out the window – but it was quiet. “They waited for a second, for Marcus to look up,” said a young woman seated at the witness stand, wearing a checkered jacket and a pained scowl. “Did...]]></description>
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		<title>Testimony in Magnus trial focuses on descent into dispute</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/02/01/testimony-in-magnus-trial-focuses-on-descent-into-dispute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday’s testimony – a marathon volley between Hartinger and Pickett – traced the rapid devolution of relations in the department after Magnus’ January 2006 hiring, which brought him to Richmond from Fargo, N.D.]]></description>
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		<title>Firearm expert links ammunition at various crime scenes in Blacknell case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gun found near Joe Blacknell III during his September 2009 capture was almost certainly the same Smith &#038; Wesson 9 mm that fired more than two dozen rounds at crime scenes in Oakland and Richmond, a firearms and ammunitions identification expert testified Monday. “It’s our conclusion that it is a practical impossibility that any...]]></description>
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		<title>Deputy chiefs leading police department during discrimination lawsuit against Chief Magnus</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/01/30/deputy-chiefs-leading-police-department-during-discrimination-lawsuit-against-chief-magnus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lexi Pandell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus is expected to be in court through March defending himself in a racial discrimination lawsuit, RPD leaders say it’s business as usual for the department.]]></description>
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		<title>Jenkins testimony continues in discrimination suit</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/01/28/jenkins-testimony-continues-in-discrimination-suit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spencer Whitney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the sixth day of testimony Thursday, Sergeant James Jenkins, a plaintiff in the discrimination lawsuit against the city of Richmond, police Chief Chris Magnus and former Deputy Chief Lori Ritter, testified that there was a buddy system in place when it came to picking candidates for the Richmond Police Department’s Investigative Services Division. In...]]></description>
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		<title>Sergeant testifies he was denied promotion in descrimination suit against Chief Magnus</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/01/27/sergeant-testifies-he-was-denied-promotion-in-descrimination-suit-against-chief-magnus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Waldholz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, eight high-ranking African American police officers sued the city of Richmond, accusing police Chief Chris Magnus and former Deputy Chief Lori Ritter of racial discrimination. The civil trial is now in its third week in Contra Costa Superior Court in Martinez. The plaintiffs—one of whom has since retired from the department and dropped...]]></description>
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		<title>Gunshot residue found on sweater of alleged Richmond shooter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The black-hooded sweatshirt Joe Blacknell III wore on the day he allegedly shot four people and missed two others had minute traces of gunshot residue on it, but not enough to definitively conclude that he fired a gun, a Los Angeles County criminalist testified Wednesday at Contra Costa Superior Court in Martinez. Blacknell is an...]]></description>
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		<title>Eyewitness struggles to recall Blacknell at scene of carjacking in Richmond case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One witness didn’t show, two were several hours late, and the most pivotal one had a foggy memory. On the fifth day of testimony in one of the most anticipated criminal cases coming out of Richmond in recent years, the prosecution slogged through a series of unwanted developments and uncooperative witnesses. “So you’re saying all...]]></description>
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