San Jose Police Department

San Jose police blocked off a large area in the Buena Vista neighborhood in San Jose, as investigators collected evidence from the fourth shooting scene in the first 11 hours of Tuesday morning.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office on Tuesday charged Officer Matthew Rodriguez, 36, with unlawful assault and battery under the color of authority.

Authorities believe Manuel Avila, 40; Gregory Messenger, 25, and 45-year-old Cynthia Alvarez are responsible for the murder of 39-year-old David Perez.

San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia banned the use of rubber bullets as a method of crowd control on June 16, so officers could no longer use them to control crowds, only to defend themselves.

Days after police bodycam from the May riot was released, top brass told city council members a lack of training hampered their efforts.

San Jose police on Friday released officers' body-worn camera footage of three cases with heightened community interest.  

The curfew was enacted by City Manager Dave Sykes and in effect until June 4, following protests focused on police brutality and racism, particularly in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

The collision was reported around 8:09 a.m. and happened at the intersection of Santa Clara Street and Notre Dame Avenue. 

Hundreds of protesters are marching through the downtown streets of two of the Bay Area's three largest cities Friday evening.

Officer David Lezama’s body cam shows him making a fast-paced u-turn near Oak Hill Cemetery in San Jose. He was trying to stop cyclist Gabriel Gonzales, who was riding without a light on his bicycle. Seconds later, Lezama uses his patrol vehicle to ram Gonzales, sending the 26-year-old flying into a chain-link fence.

"It's not an easy decision. It's been a life of service thus far and I'm going to miss it," said Chief Eddie Garcia.

Mayor Sam Liccardo hailed Garcia as an "exuberant leader who gave his heart and soul to his hometown." 

“Some of the comments that I’ve seen, absolutely abhorrent. I was shocked by some of them,” said San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia.

The mayor said he expects that any officer expressing racist, anti-Muslim, or menacing comments will be fired.

More than 225 faculty, staff and students have signed-on to a form to defund that university’s police department, immediately.