“Watch this guys”: San Jose police encouraged residents of a homeless camp to observe as they beat a mentally ill man, An article and video posted by ROBERT SALONGA | rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com and HARRIET BLAIR ROWAN | hrowan@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group.

Journalists from the Bay Area News Group and the California Reporting Project reviewed a series of cases involving violent confrontations between San Jose police and mentally impaired individuals. Many of those cases raise questions about the conduct of the department’s officers, who have been trained to avoid the use of force in such situations.