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Open Vallejo is an award-winning independent newsroom serving the public interest.
Feb 8, 2023 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
In January 2021, amid a state investigation now led by @AGRobBonta, officials for the @CityofVallejo intentionally — and with approval from a senior attorney for the city — destroyed key evidence in multiple police killings and one non-fatal shooting. openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/val… Lawyers for Open Vallejo alerted @AGRobBonta to the destruction of evidence last year, and have asked a Solano County judge to consider a rare criminal referral for the destruction of public records. A spokesperson for the state DOJ declined to comment. openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/val…
Dec 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Det. Jarrett Tonn has been served with a notice of intent to terminate his employment for violating policy in killing Sean Monterrosa.

He is the first Vallejo officer in at least 20 years to face termination for an on-duty killing.

📷: Noah Berger for Open Vallejo A photograph of the Vallejo... Open Vallejo reported in July that Tonn was on leave pending likely termination after an outside investigation found he violated department policies in the killing.

We sued @CityofVallejo for the report in September.

Yesterday @VallejoPd released it.

openvallejo.org/2021/07/11/det…
Aug 5, 2020 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
For those who choose to watch the footage of Willie McCoy released today, consider this.

Some of @VallejoPd's shooters keep track of those they kill by bending one point on their badge for each life taken.

The following people knew in 2019, sources say.

openvallejo.org/2020/07/28/val… 1. Retired @VallejoPd Sergeant @vallejomayorbob told Open Vallejo that he and others were briefed on the department's "Badge of Honor" ritual shortly after six officers fired 55 bullets at McCoy, age 20.

He also observed bent badges while serving as a police officer, he said. ImageImage
Jun 25, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Unfortunately, @PeteJamison caused enormous pain with a story that does not stand up to the facts. @VallejoPD killed 17 people from 2001–2010, and 17 again from 2011–2020, Open Vallejo research shows. Vallejo was in bankruptcy from 2008–2011. VPD pay, pensions were a major cause. (One pre-2010 death was ruled a suicide. It occurred during a shootout.)

From 2011–2020, the per-year average number of shootings by @VallejoPD did increase over the prior decade, from 2.7 to 3.4 And there was a major spike in 2012. Why?

Sean Kenney killed 3 men in 5 months.
Jul 5, 2019 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
Mar 26, 2019 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
We have filed an immediate disclosure request for body camera footage of #WillieMcCoy's death. We demand the City of Vallejo #ReleaseTheTapes by end of business today. Read our public records request here: vallejo.nextrequest.com/requests/19-169. Here is the video we believe supports our argument that the Vallejo Police Department waived all exemptions to disclosure: .