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Gilford were the ranking African-American members of SFPD, and OFJ lead counsel Robert Gnaizda stated "The lawsuit never would have occurred without Earl Sanders..." The mostly white San Francisco Police Officers Association, however, chose to join the defendants. In 1979 the parties entered into a consent decree, under which the SFPD was to modify its hiring and promotional practices. The trial began in November 1978, and Sanders was the only witness called. Judge Peckham recessed the trial for settlement negotiations which resulted in the consent decree.
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Squad, and in 1971 to the homicide bureau (where he was teamed with
Inspector Napoleon Hendrix from 1979 through 1995). The day after Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, Sanders – then on the robbery detail – solved the murder of a Muni driver in Hunters Point. In 1973, Sanders and SFPD Inspector Rotea Gilford were assigned to the
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Sanders elected to retire due to stress from the investigation in August 2003. He continued to pursue his claim against the city, arguing that he had been prosecuted maliciously in the
Fajitagate scandal, taking it through suit and appeals. In late October 2007, the United States Supreme Court turned
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Sanders were dropped, however, Mayor Brown had publicly called for Sanders's resignation. Sanders also claimed that he had suffered a mild stroke, and was unable to return to duty. During his recovery period, the 1989 murder convictions of John Tennison and Antoine Goff (on
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Francisco Police Department in 1964. At the time Sanders joined the force, there were fewer than two dozen African American officers in the department, and the first black SFPD civil-service officers had been hired sixteen years earlier. In 1966, Sanders was assigned to the Robbery
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During 2003 and through 2004, most of the ten accused senior officers (including Chief
Sanders) pursued legal appeals to clear their names of the underlying factual claims regarding the obstruction. Sanders and several others were eventually cleared by courts; Sanders was declared factually innocent
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investigation headed by white SFPD officers Gus
Coreris and John Fotinos. In 1975, no African American officer joined the police and fireman strike. In 2002 Sanders and Hendrix were accused of misconduct during the 1989 murder arrest and conviction of two young African American men, colluding
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about Sanders' career and specifically his role in the 1973–74 investigation. The book has been heavily criticized by former SFPD deputy chief Kevin Mullen and former SFPD lieutenant and SFPOA supporter Louis Calabro.
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which Sanders and Hendrix were the investigators) were reversed for prosecution errors. In early 2004 Sanders filed a $ 33 million claim against the city and Hallinan.
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