Joel🇵🇷🇭🇳
@jr_umanzor
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Reporter for @richmondside, Formerly: @sfstandard, @Hearst Breaking News Fellow (HTX➡️SF), SF State '21 🐊, Contra Costa College '19 💫 All opinions are my own.
Real Richmond, CA
Joined August 2018
Yankee Stadium ERUPTED for Aaron Judge’s game-tying Game 3 homer 🗣️
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BREAKING: MASSIVE explosion rocks El Segundo and Manhattan Beach, CA - MAJOR fire burning at the Chevron refinery
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Jarrett Tonn, the Vallejo police officer who was once fired for killing Sean Monterrosa but won his job back in arbitration, has been promoted to sergeant, the Vallejo Sun has learned. https://t.co/Rr12OMjoje
vallejosun.com
Sgt. Jarrett Tonn was promoted within the last two months.
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Some sad news from a place I worked at for a number of years. Shelma Reyna, a mother of five children, died during what her family described as a mechanical malfunction at the UPS Richmond facility while she loaded trailers on Sunday afternoon. https://t.co/iR99hXMBfO
richmondside.org
Shelma Reyna, mother of five children, identified her in a GoFundMe as the UPS employee who died due to a machine malfunction on Sunday.
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An East Bay grandmother was detained by ICE officials during a routine check-in this week. Her family, and an expected 200 community members, will stage a protest today in El Sobrante demanding her release. The latest from my colleague @Jana_Kadah
https://t.co/CdWv0oKi98
richmondside.org
Contra Costa Indivisible rallied in El Sobrante to call for the release of Harjit Kaur, who was detained on Sept. 8 at a routine check-in.
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BREAKING: Richmond Police Chief Bisa French announces retirement Read more below: https://t.co/nhKsGzWoQo
richmondside.org
French was the city's first female chief. She is stepping down in January after five years as chief and 27 at the department.
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Today we conclude our 5-part series Restrained and Sedated with the story of Ivan Gutzalenko, a former burn unit nurse who collapsed on a Richmond street in 2021. 911 callers said he was acting erratically and bleeding and had stolen an energy drink. 🧵1/5
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Read the entire series by Richmondside reporter Joel Umanzor @jr_umanzor
https://t.co/XOPqWFYB4Z 5/5
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In CoCo County, AMR paramedics gave midazolam 4,956 times from 2017 to June 2025. Of those calls, between 2017 and 2023, 1,380 injections were given during “5150 PD requests,” meaning they involved situations where LE agencies believed the person needed a 72-hour involuntary
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In the coroner’s incident report about Lopez’s case, it failed to mention the injection of the sedative midazolam seven minutes before first responders realized he wasn’t breathing.
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