Journalist who leaked police report on Jeff Adachi's death's circumstances has home raided by FBI in San Francisco
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Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, awoke Friday to the sounds of someone trying to break into his house.
About 10 officers from the San Francisco Police Department were bashing the front gate of his home in the Outer Richmond neighborhood with a sledgehammer, he said. It was just after 8 o’clock in the morning.
Carmody called out and said he would let them into the house. The officers showed him a search warrant and proceeded to go through his home — from “top to bottom” he says — with their guns drawn.
“They treated me like I was some kind of drug dealer," he said in an interview with The Washington Post.
Carmody was being raided in connection with a criminal investigation.
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Two weeks before, police investigators showed up at his home to ask him, politely he says, to identify the source who provided him with a confidential police report about the February death of the city’s public defender, Jeff Adachi. Carmody, who said he worked with three local television news stations on the story, declined.
He wasn’t about to give up his source on Friday either, despite the escalation — not to the police or two FBI agents in suits who questioned him about the case, he said.
“I’m smart enough not to talk to federal agents, ever,” Carmody said. “I just kept saying ‘lawyer, lawyer, lawyer.' ”
So he stayed handcuffed for the next six hours, he says — a certificate of release from the police department that he distributed says he was in custody from 8:22 a.m. until 1:55 p.m. — as investigators searched his home, then his office, where they found the report in a safe. A search warrant filed in the case notes that it was issued as police investigated “stolen or embezzled property.”
“There’s only two people on this planet who know who leaked this report — me and the guy who leaked it,” Carmody said.
The raid on Carmody’s home and office drew wide First Amendment-related attention in the Bay Area over the weekend. And it added a new twist to the intrigue that surrounded the death of Adachi, who had built up a high profile as a public defender in the 16 years he had held the office.
The only elected public defender in California, Adachi was known as an watchdog on police misconduct. His death, on Feb. 22, at the age of 59, was attributed in early reports to a heart attack.
Then more information came to light.
On Feb. 24, ABC 7 published a story after it said it obtained a police report and photos about Adachi’s death, which included unflattering details about the public defender’s last hours. The story reported that he had been with a woman named Caterina — not his wife — and that he was found unresponsive in an apartment with “an unmade bed, empty bottles of alcohol, cannabis gummies, and two syringes that may have been left by paramedics.”
The publication of those details, which did little to illuminate the nature of Adachi’s death and more to call into question his character, prompted some to wonder if the police department was retaliating against Adachi, even after his death.
“It’s curious that we’re reading leaked details about another ‘woman,’ the renting of an apartment, and entirely unnecessary mentions of alcohol, cannabis, and syringes,” SFist noted at the time. “Certainly the incident ought to be investigated, as any death should, but the information coming out makes it seem like Adachi’s decades-old battles with law enforcement — on behalf of defendants and otherwise — may continue even after his passing.”
Tim Redmond, editor of the San Francisco news site 48 Hills, called the local coverage “repugnant,” noting how disliked Adachi was by many police officers in the city in a post he wrote at the time.
“Where do you supposed those came from? Why do you suppose they wound up with the sensation-driven TV stations?” he wrote of the provenance of the police report. “The photos have been widely publicized with no context at all. There are photos of ‘an unmade bed’ — a salacious innuendo with no relevance.”
Carmody declined to give specifics about the three outlets he had worked with on the story.
A “stringer” in the parlance of TV news, Carmody occupies the small niche in the world of broadcast journalism that was satirized in the Hollywood film “Nightcrawler.”
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He works every night from about 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., when he chases news, such as car crashes, crime scenes, disasters, weather stories, the release of a new video game — “anything that happens overnight,” he says — then sells his services and materials he gathers to local stations for their morning broadcasts. His name is rarely included on the report or corresponding material, he said.
His company, North Bay Television, which is run out of an office stocked with police scanners, computers, and a coffee machine downtown, employs three or four other people, down from a onetime peak of 10.
“Like all media, we are shrinking," he said.
He said he has never paid any of his sources of information or material.
Asked about tensions between the police department and Adachi, Carmody declined to comment on the politics of the case.
“I had no beef with him, I had no beef with anyone, I’m just a journalist in the middle of this,” he said.
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He said he believed he was being targeted because he was a freelancer, noting that details in the police report had appeared in other publications, such as the San Francisco Chronicle.
“I don’t think there was a police raid at the Chronicle with a sledgehammer yesterday,” he said.
A medical examiner’s report, which was released to the media in March, filled in more details about Adachi’s death. The office ruled his death an accident due to the effects of cocaine and alcohol combined with a preexisting heart condition it said Adachi had.
The San Francisco Police Department defended the investigation Saturday in a statement sent to local reporters.
“The citizens and leaders of the City of San Francisco have demanded a complete and thorough investigation into this leak, and this action represents a step in the process of investigating a potential case of obstruction of justice along with the illegal distribution of confidential police material," it said.
An FBI spokeswoman said that the bureau’s agents did not participate in the execution of the search warrant but confirmed that they were present to interview Carmody.
A law enforcement source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Carmody was handcuffed for procedural issues related to “multiple weapons” in the house. Carmody said that he is the lawful owner of an unspecified number of guns.
Die from AIDS you mean…
Do you think everyone in the proximity of Poser is just like him? Or is he trying to seek fame by getting pics with high profile individuals even though he was around earlier doing stunts with Laura Loomer?
AKA Julius Caesar at the Park…
Thanks anon, fagging on laptop without 4k screen so difficult to do.
I cum all over her harris… LOL. Yeah I concur.
I'm waiting for copious amounts of hormones and facial hair. She's going to play Pablo Escobar in 5 years.
Yeah MAGA CO is bad news, but not everyone around them is worth ignoring. Some seem to be doing pretty good "activist" things. Do you think Walkaway isn't doing what it's advertising? Or Blexit?
I actually got started in MAGA watching Milo, and Steven Crowder talk to college kids as well as a little Alex Jones, now I've transitioned away but I still credit them to getting me started in looking into everything.
Yeah Cernovich turned me off to Alex Jones and himself. He's a bit big headed and looks like the drug type (or ex-drug type). Ecstasy, most likely or roofies. They all do something I bet.
Found Q back in Calm Before the Storm on 4chan. Before that frequented Pol mostly. I heard now it's a shitshow. Researched a lot into Charlottesville, Ketron Island, and Las Vegas.
Well I can tell you that it definitely was weird.
My theory:
Remote controlled plane with actual guy speaking to tower, witness protection program…
Gary Lundgren - Panama Papers, James Porter, pedophile on tip
Plane was arrow…
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2675566
I think AJ ←Joe Rogan ←> IDW ←> MAGA CO ←> Roger Stone ←> Trump Campaign (plant)
Alex Jones is the keystone of the group. He pretty much promotes all newcomers. But many of the group have close proximity to Trump and until Trump disavows or they do something egregious, I'm ok with supporting them. I don't support them financially, but I follow or tweet, etc if it's something I agree with or think people need to see.
Watched tonight. Brendan is from the same state.
Do you think Breitbart started off good with Andrew but after his death it went to shit? I tend to think that's what happened. AKA Shaqueero, MILO, and Stranahan.
What if for plausible deniability, deep state actors either have a twin, (aka Brian Sims of PA), or they have another person with the same name at the same age (aka James Porter from Ketron Island)
So when Dilley doesn't ask for donations but instead wants to help sell others MAGA products using marketing on his show (aka pay per month to market a product), is that paytrioting? Or is it his side gig?
Ok so you're mad you haven't written a book or started a podcast. Lol, no one has to donate. This shit is stupid. Are you part of MAGA Co?
This kind of baseless attack is just part of the problem. Has he ever spoken negative about Trump? Has Cernovich? Has Alex Jones? There's your difference you stupid fuck!
Ok Occulturalism / that one Matrix looking bitch…
You don't have any discernment between what is a Paytriot and what isn't.
Says who? AOC? This is a capitalistic country. People can make money doing whatever they want. I tend to look at what they say, not how they make their money.
Why do you think it's wrong to make money promoting MAGA? Does money immediately corrupt a man's heart? Or does it depend on his view of money?
I don't pay anyone for content. It's voluntary for a reason. If they charge, I don't watch. Same for Q. I view all sources of info as potentially valid. I use my discernment to figure out what's true or not. And use multiple sources to back it up.
Who profited from war? You're calling podcasters war profiteers? And Dilley doesn't talk about Q, but he doesn't dismiss it like everyone else either.
Ok Dilley hates Maga Co. And Dave (Praying Medic) disavowed. He said he used to think God gave him dreams for Gingrich, but says Gingrich didn't take advice, so he cut ties. Anyhow. Let's focus on what's important, waking people up, not tearing others down based on how they make money. That's just so fucking stupid.
Real division shills are here. Occulturalism and what's her name. I can't even remember it now.
Thank you I'm not here every night, but I like to come and drop in until Declas day.
PROVE IT…
AZ is one of the last frontiers of true patriots in this country. Almost every southwestern state has cucked.
I don't make money shit posting but I've considered selling memes on a t-shirt or making some poems that I can sell on the side. Everyone should have a side gig anyhow incase shit hits the fan again and you lose your main employment. I work in telecom.