SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations — following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal board over support for law enforcement .

The vote was 8-3, with the majority agreeing to grant police the option despite strong objections from civil liberties and other police oversight groups. Opponents said the authority would lead to the further militarization of a police force already too aggressive with poor and minority communities.

Supervisor Connie Chan, a member of the committee that forwarded the proposal to the full board, said she understood concerns about use of force but that “according to state law, we are required to approve the use of these equipments. So here we are, and it’s definitely not an easy discussion.”

The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have pre-armed robots and has no plans to arm robots with guns. But the department could deploy robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” when lives are at stake, SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie said in a statement.

“Robots equipped in this manner would only be used in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives,” she said.

Supervisors amended the proposal Tuesday to specify that officers could use robots only after using alternative force or de-escalation tactics, or concluding they would not be able to subdue the suspect through those alternative means. Only a limited number of high-ranking officers could authorize use of robots as a deadly force option.

San Francisco police currently have a dozen functioning ground robots used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low visibility situations, the department says. They were acquired between 2010 and 2017, and not once have they been used to deliver an explosive device, police officials said.

But explicit authorization was required after a new California law went into effect this year requiring police and sheriffs departments to inventory military-grade equipment and seek approval for their use.

The state law was authored last year by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu while he was an assembly member. It is aimed at giving the public a forum and voice in the acquisition and use of military-grade weapons that have a negative effect on communities, according to the legislation.

A federal program has long dispensed grenade launchers, camouflage uniforms, bayonets, armored vehicles and other surplus military equipment to help local law enforcement.

In 2017, then-President Donald Trump signed an order reviving the Pentagon program after his predecessor, Barack Obama, curtailed it in 2015, triggered in part by outrage over the use of military gear during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting death of Michael Brown.

San Francisco police said late Tuesday that no robots were obtained from military surplus, but some were purchased with federal grant money.

Like many places around the US, San Francisco is trying to balance public safety with treasured civilian rights such as privacy and the ability to live free of excessive police oversight. In September, supervisors agreed to a trial run allowing police to access in real time private surveillance camera feeds in certain circumstances.

Debate on Tuesday ran more than two hours with members on both sides accusing the other of reckless fear mongering.

Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the policy authorization, said he was troubled by rhetoric painting the police department as untrustworthy and dangerous.

“I think there’s larger questions raised when progressives and progressive policies start looking to the public like they are anti-police,” he said. “I think that is bad for progressives. I think it’s bad for this Board of Supervisors. I think it’s bad for Democrats nationally.”

Board President Shamann Walton, who voted against the proposal, pushed back, saying it made him not anti-police, but “pro people of color.”

“We continuously are being asked to do things in the name of increasing weaponry and opportunities for negative interaction between the police department and people of color,” he said. “This is just one of those things.”

The San Francisco Public Defender’s office sent a letter Monday to the board saying that granting police “the ability to kill community members remotely” goes against the city’s progressive values. The office wanted the board to reinstate language barring police from using robots against any person in an act of force.

On the other side of the San Francisco Bay, the Oakland Police Department dropped a similar proposal after public backlash.

The first time a robot was used to deliver explosives in the US was in 2016, when Dallas police sent in an armed robot that killed a holed-up sniper who had killed five officers in an ambush.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors in San Francisco held a heated debate Tuesday over whether to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations, with both sides accusing the other of reckless fearmongering.

Police oversight groups are urging the 11-member Board of Supervisors to reject the idea, saying it would lead to further militarization of a police force already too aggressive with poor and minority communities. They said the parameters under which use would be allowed are too vague.

The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have pre-armed robots and has no plans to arm robots with guns. But the department could deploy robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” when lives are at stake, SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie said in a statement.

“Robots equipped in this manner would only be used in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives,” she said.

The proposed policy does not lay out specifics for how the weapons can and cannot be equipped, leaving open the option to arm them. “Robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available to SFPD,” it says.

The city’s board members are staunch Democrats who favor gun control, reproductive freedoms and civil rights protections, but they are deeply divided on support for law enforcement.

Several supervisors said it shocked them that a city accustomed to protesting the use of military drones would entertain the idea of ​​allowing a robot to possibly kill a person. But others said police were making a reasonable request and were only carving out permission in case of catastrophe.

“Everything that was said in this hearing, I don’t see how a robot being armed with certain weaponry would save lives,” said Shamann Walton, president of the Board of Supervisors.

The vote comes under a new California law that requires police and sheriffs departments to inventory military-grade equipment and seek approval for their use. San Francisco police currently have a dozen functioning ground robots used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low visibility situations, the department says. They were acquired between 2010 and 2017.

The state law was authored last year by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu while he was an assembly member. It is aimed at giving the public a forum and voice in the acquisition and use of military-grade weapons that have a negative effect on communities, according to the legislation.

San Francisco police did not immediately respond to a question about how the robots were acquired, but a federal program has dispensed grenade launchers, camouflage uniforms, bayonets, armored vehicles and other surplus military equipment to help local law enforcement.

In 2017, then-President Donald Trump signed an order reviving the Pentagon program after his predecessor, Barack Obama, curtailed it in 2015, triggered in part by outrage over the use of military gear during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting death of Michael Brown.

The first time a robot was used to deliver explosives in the US was in 2016, when Dallas police sent in an armed robot that killed a holed-up sniper who had killed five officers in an ambush.

Like many places around the US, San Francisco is trying to balance public safety with treasured civilian rights such as privacy and the ability to live free of excessive police oversight. In September, supervisors agreed to a trial run allowing police to access in real time private surveillance camera feeds in certain circumstances.

The San Francisco Public Defender’s office sent a letter Monday to the board saying that granting police “the ability to kill community members remotely” goes against the city’s progressive values. The office would like the board to reinstate language barring police from using robots against any person in an act of force.

On the other side of the San Francisco Bay, the Oakland Police Department dropped a similar proposal after public backlash.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations — following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal board over support for law enforcement.

The vote was 8-3, with the majority agreeing to grant police the option despite strong objections from civil liberties and other police oversight groups. Opponents said the authority would lead to the further militarization of a police force already too aggressive with poor and minority communities.

Supervisor Connie Chan, a member of the committee that forwarded the proposal to the full board, said she understood concerns about use of force but that “according to state law, we are required to approve the use of these equipments. So here we are, and it’s definitely not an easy discussion.”

The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have pre-armed robots and has no plans to arm robots with guns. But the department could deploy robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” when lives are at stake, SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie said in a statement.

“Robots equipped in this manner would only be used in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives,” she said.

Supervisors amended the proposal Tuesday to specify that officers could use robots only after using alternative force or de-escalation tactics, or concluding they would not be able to subdue the suspect through those alternative means. Only a limited number of high-ranking officers could authorize use of robots as a deadly force option.

San Francisco police currently have a dozen functioning ground robots used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low visibility situations, the department says. They were acquired between 2010 and 2017, and not once have they been used to deliver an explosive device, police officials said.

But explicit authorization was required after a new California law went into effect this year requiring police and sheriffs departments to inventory military-grade equipment and seek approval for their use.

The state law was authored last year by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu while he was an assembly member. It is aimed at giving the public a forum and voice in the acquisition and use of military-grade weapons that have a negative effect on communities, according to the legislation.

A federal program has long dispensed grenade launchers, camouflage uniforms, bayonets, armored vehicles and other surplus military equipment to help local law enforcement.

In 2017, then-President Donald Trump signed an order reviving the Pentagon program after his predecessor, Barack Obama, curtailed it in 2015, triggered in part by outrage over the use of military gear during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting death of Michael Brown.

San Francisco police said late Tuesday that no robots were obtained from military surplus, but some were purchased with federal grant money.

Like many places around the US, San Francisco is trying to balance public safety with treasured civilian rights such as privacy and the ability to live free of excessive police oversight. In September, supervisors agreed to a trial run allowing police to access in real time private surveillance camera feeds in certain circumstances.

Debate on Tuesday ran more than two hours with members on both sides accusing the other of reckless fear mongering.

Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the policy authorization, said he was troubled by rhetoric painting the police department as untrustworthy and dangerous.

“I think there’s larger questions raised when progressives and progressive policies start looking to the public like they are anti-police,” he said. “I think that is bad for progressives. I think it’s bad for this Board of Supervisors. I think it’s bad for Democrats nationally.”

Board President Shamann Walton, who voted against the proposal, pushed back, saying it made him not anti-police, but “pro people of color.”

“We continuously are being asked to do things in the name of increasing weaponry and opportunities for negative interaction between the police department and people of color,” he said. “This is just one of those things.”

The San Francisco Public Defender’s office sent a letter Monday to the board saying that granting police “the ability to kill community members remotely” goes against the city’s progressive values. The office wanted the board to reinstate language barring police from using robots against any person in an act of force.

On the other side of the San Francisco Bay, the Oakland Police Department dropped a similar proposal after public backlash.

The first time a robot was used to deliver explosives in the US was in 2016, when Dallas police sent in an armed robot that killed a holed-up sniper who had killed five officers in an ambush.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations — following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal board over support for law enforcement.

The vote was 8-3, with the majority agreeing to grant police the option despite strong objections from civil liberties and other police oversight groups. Opponents said the authority would lead to the further militarization of a police force already too aggressive with poor and minority communities.

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Supervisor Connie Chan, a member of the committee that forwarded the proposal to the full board, said she understood concerns about use of force but that “according to state law, we are required to approve the use of these equipments. So here we are, and it’s definitely not an easy discussion.”

The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have pre-armed robots and has no plans to arm robots with guns. But the department could deploy robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” when lives are at stake, SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie said in a statement.

“Robots equipped in this manner would only be used in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives,” she said.

Supervisors amended the proposal Tuesday to specify that officers could use robots only after using alternative force or de-escalation tactics, or concluding they would not be able to subdue the suspect through those alternative means. Only a limited number of high-ranking officers could authorize use of robots as a deadly force option.

San Francisco police currently have a dozen functioning ground robots used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low visibility situations, the department says. They were acquired between 2010 and 2017, and not once have they been used to deliver an explosive device, police officials said.

But explicit authorization was required after a new California law went into effect this year requiring police and sheriffs departments to inventory military-grade equipment and seek approval for their use.

The state law was authored last year by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu while he was an assembly member. It is aimed at giving the public a forum and voice in the acquisition and use of military-grade weapons that have a negative effect on communities, according to the legislation.

A federal program has long dispensed grenade launchers, camouflage uniforms, bayonets, armored vehicles and other surplus military equipment to help local law enforcement.

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In 2017, then-President Donald Trump signed an order reviving the Pentagon program after his predecessor, Barack Obama, curtailed it in 2015, triggered in part by outrage over the use of military gear during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting death of Michael Brown.

San Francisco police said late Tuesday that no robots were obtained from military surplus, but some were purchased with federal grant money.

Like many places around the US, San Francisco is trying to balance public safety with treasured civilian rights such as privacy and the ability to live free of excessive police oversight. In September, supervisors agreed to a trial run allowing police to access in real time private surveillance camera feeds in certain circumstances.

Debate on Tuesday ran more than two hours with members on both sides accusing the other of reckless fear mongering.

Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the policy authorization, said he was troubled by rhetoric painting the police department as untrustworthy and dangerous.

“I think there’s larger questions raised when progressives and progressive policies start looking to the public like they are anti-police,” he said. “I think that is bad for progressives. I think it’s bad for this Board of Supervisors. I think it’s bad for Democrats nationally.”

Board President Shamann Walton, who voted against the proposal, pushed back, saying it made him not anti-police, but “pro people of color.”

“We continuously are being asked to do things in the name of increasing weaponry and opportunities for negative interaction between the police department and people of color,” he said. “This is just one of those things.”

The San Francisco Public Defender’s office sent a letter Monday to the board saying that granting police “the ability to kill community members remotely” goes against the city’s progressive values. The office wanted the board to reinstate language barring police from using robots against any person in an act of force.

On the other side of the San Francisco Bay, the Oakland Police Department dropped a similar proposal after public backlash.

The first time a robot was used to deliver explosives in the US was in 2016, when Dallas police sent in an armed robot that killed a holed-up sniper who had killed five officers in an ambush.

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Jan 20, 2022Updated: Jan 20, 2022 11:07 am

The road in front of the International Terminal at San Francisco International Airport on April 2, 2020.

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Police officers fired multiple shots “to neutralize the threat” of a man brandishing two firearms at the San Francisco International Airport’s International Terminal on Thursday morning, airport officials said. CPR was administered to the suspect, but he died from his injuries, officials said.

The incident occurred at approximately 7:30 am in front of the airport’s BART station entrance, airport spokesperson Doug Yakel said in an email statement. An airport employee alerted police to the man allegedly displaying suspicious behavior.

San Francisco Police Department officers initially tried to deescalate the situation using nonlethal measures, but the suspect continued “to advance,” Yakel said.

Also, a bystander in the area was injured in the gunfire, Yakel said. The person was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

The San Francisco Int’l Airport station is open. Normal train service has resumed at the San Francisco Int’l Airport station. The primary station entrance remains closed. Passengers can enter and exit the station through the secondary entrance on the upper level.

— SFBARTalert (@SFBARTalert) January 20, 2022

BART service was temporarily suspended to and from the airport. Trains are running again, BART said on Twitter. The airport station is open but the primary entrance remains closed, the agency said. “Passengers can enter and exit the station through the secondary entrance on the upper level,” BART said.

Amy Graff is the news editor for SFGATE. She was born and raised in the Bay Area and got her start in news at the Daily Californian newspaper at UC Berkeley where she majored in English literature. She has been with SFGATE for more than 10 years. You can email her at agraff@sfgate.com.

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PLEASANTON (CBS SF) — A domestic violence call late Thursday morning at a Pleasanton apartment complex on the edge of the city’s Hacienda Business Park turned into an hours-long standoff between a man and police officers, eventually ending in the afternoon with an officer- involved shooting after the man exited the building armed with a knife.

Police said Thursday afternoon that the man was confirmed dead at the scene.

The incident began at 11:51 am when police received a call from a victim of domestic violence at 4899 Willow Rd. When officers arrived on the scene, they located the man who refused to come out of an apartment unit.

“We know the public wants to know more, which is why we’re moving quickly to gather the facts,” Pleasanton Police Lt. Erik Salacci said Thursday evening.

Still frames from bystander video of moment of fatal police shooting of domestic violence suspect, February 17, 2022. (Credit: Luis Castillo)

The suspect was barricaded inside a ground floor unit of The Galloway Apartments for several hours. Just after 3:30 pm, police officers were seen breaking a window, appearing to get ready to enter the unit. Moments later, as seen on a video taken by a neighbor, the suspect walked out of the apartment in front of officers. On the video, a shot is heard and the suspect turns toward an officer and appears to lunge as the officers open fire.

Police outside a broken apartment window on Willow Ave. near Owens Dr. in Pleasanton following an officer-involved shooting, February 17, 2022. (CBS)

The neighbor who shot the video said a couple had recently moved into the apartment and the woman worked in the apartment complex leasing office.

“I was trying to make sure he was OK,” said neighbor Luis Castillo. “I heard he was crying over the phone and the other people, too, came out right away. That’s when I saw the commotion. There was people across the street, everyone was a little shaken by what happened.”

Speaking about the suspect, Castillo added: “I met him about a month ago. Usually I’ll walk my dog ​​and see him out with his girlfriend. He seemed like a nice guy.”

Another neighbor said that, after three-plus hours into the standoff, she heard flash-bang devices and saw police breaking the window before the man emerged and was shot.

Pleasanton police said the suspect came out of the apartment armed with a knife.

“Two officers were involved in that [officer-involved shooting] and are uninjured,” said police spokesman Lt. Eric Silacci. “We can confirm the suspect is deceased. We’re not releasing the officers’ names at this time. We are in the process of conducting our investigation. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is also on scene and conducting their investigation. We know the public wants to know more, which is why we’re moving quickly to gather facts.”

Police an apartment on Willow Ave. near Owens Dr. in Pleasanton following an officer-involved shooting, February 17, 2022. (CBS)

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The trial of a Texas man accused of posing as a handyman to rob and kill seniors is due to take place on Monday, the Associated Press reported.

Billy Chemirmir, 48, is charged with robbing and killing 18 seniors. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment without parole. The prosecution has decided not to apply for the death penalty.

Chemirmir allegedly pretended to be a craftsman or broke into apartments to gain entry. Most of the victims lived in separate shared apartments for the elderly.

One of the victims, Leah Corken, 83, was found on the living room floor of her apartment in 2016. There were makeup stains on her bedroom pillow and her wedding ring was missing.

“I knew something was wrong, but I didn’t know,” said MJ Jennings, Corken’s daughter. “I didn’t know it was murder.”

Families across Dallas have had similar stories of missing jewelry and puzzling deaths of their elderly but otherwise healthy loved ones.

In March 2018, 91-year-old Mary Annis Bartel survived after a man broke into her apartment and told her “don’t fight me” when he tried to suffocate her with a pillow and left with jewelry. Chemirmir was arrested the next day.

At a press conference after Chemirmir’s arrest, then Plano Police Chief Greg Rushin admitted a tendency to assume that the death of an elderly person is natural.

“There is no in-depth investigation … It would be very easy to cover up a crime,” said Rushin.

More coverage from the Associated Press can be found below.

MJ Jennings views a photo of her mother Leah Corken as she sits at her home in Dallas on Wednesday November 3, 2021. Corken was one of 18 women in the Dallas area charged with capital murder and suspected of multiple other deaths. Most of the deaths occurred in upscale independent shared apartments for the elderly, where Chemirmir was accused of breaking into apartments or posing as a handyman and, in some cases, was even caught trespassing.
LM Otero / AP Photo

Chemirmir’s attorney did not respond to the AP’s request to comment on the story, but has previously labeled the evidence against Chemirmir as circumstantial. Chemirmir, who immigrated to the United States from Kenya, became a legal permanent resident in 2007.

Eight of the people he is charged with lived lived at The Tradition-Prestonwood, and he has been linked to the death of a ninth resident in a lawsuit.

Just days before Glenna Day, 87, was found dead there in October 2016, she told friends something was wrong.

“They asked how things were going. She said, ‘Well, I think I should move because my friends are dying,'” said her daughter Sherril Kerr, who added that the death caused her mother to see her doctor to go for a check up.

When Day was killed, the accomplished artist had been working to restore a friend’s painting and had just been dancing in a senior citizen center.

Chemirmir was charged with two deaths earlier this year in another Dallas retiree community – The Edgemere – and linked to a third via an autopsy report.

The Tradition deaths began after his release from prison in July. According to lawsuits against The Tradition, Chemirmir was escorted from the site in late 2016 and asked not to return. A November 2016 police report said the suspect – who is not named but whose description matches Chemirmir’s – was seen there several times and said he was looking for pipe leaks.

Chemirmir is accused of killing three of her roommates on Preston Place in Plano in the two weeks leading up to the attack on Bartel.

When the victims ‘children began to find each other, they founded Secure Our Seniors’ Safety. The group advocated new Texas law requiring medical assessors to notify families when a relative’s death certificate is changed and to require spot checks by officials in gold shops.

They say more work needs to be done, including more transparency in independent shared flats. In legal proceedings, the families accused the institutions of not having the advertised security.

“We didn’t know evil was roaming the hallways,” said Shannon Dion, whose mother was killed at The Tradition and who is the group’s president.

The tradition said in a statement that it relied on investigations by police and medical experts. Preston Place said it had settled the lawsuit but did not want to comment on the details. Edgemere did not respond to requests for comment.

When Scott MacPhee read an article about Chemirmir’s arrest, the death of his 82-year-old mother at their Plano home made sense. Carolyn MacPhee was found in her bedroom on New Year’s Eve 2017, a little over eight months after her husband died. Her glasses were bloody, a door and handkerchiefs in the bathroom. Two diamond rings she always wore were missing.

“I read the story that goes, ‘Well, holy crap, that connects all the dots,'” he said.

Robert MacPhee said police suspected her mother had a nosebleed and died of an aneurysm, so the family did not perform an autopsy. It turned out that Chemirmir, under the pseudonym Koitaba, had looked after her father, who had Parkinson’s disease, at home.

About nine months after Chemirmir’s arrest, Jennings learned that authorities believed her mother had been murdered.

“All of a sudden, all of the things I saw in this room that day … all made sense,” she said.

Jennings said Corken lived around the world and moved to The Tradition from Florida to be close to her.

“She was my best friend, she really was,” Jennings said.

FILE – This undated photo courtesy of the Dallas County, Texas Sheriff’s Office shows Billy Chemirmir. Chemirmir is due to be tried on Monday, November 15, 2021 for the death of one of 18 women accused of killing in Texas over a period of two years.
Dallas County Sheriff’s Office / AP Photo

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Four dead gray whales washed ashore on the beaches of San Francisco Bay in nine days. Experts announced that two of the giant aquatic mammals have died from ship attacks and the other two are under investigation on Saturday.

Biologists from the nonprofit Marine Mammal Center in California said in a press release Saturday that two dead whales washed ashore in the Bay Area on Thursday, joining two more whales discovered dead on the area’s beaches since March 31 were.

Of the four animals, two died of blunt violent trauma from ship attacks, the center said.

“It is alarming to be responding to four dead gray whales in just over a week as it really puts the current challenges facing these species into perspective,” said Padraig Duignan, director of pathology at the center, in a press release.

Other common causes of gray whale death include starvation and complications from entanglement in deep-sea fishing nets and other equipment, the center said.

Biologists from the California Academy of Sciences came to the center’s experts to perform the autopsies.

Climate change can affect water temperatures, which affects the availability of food for the whales. These can grow up to 50 feet long and migrate approximately 10,000 miles each year between foraging areas in the cold waters of the North Pacific and breeding areas in warm water lagoons on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.

The species is not currently considered endangered, but is protected by the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Department keeps track of whale populations. The last published study in 2016 found a population of 27,000 gray whales. Data from a 2020 study is still being analyzed, according to the NOAA website.

Reporting from Rich McKay in Atlanta; Adaptation by Andrea Ricci

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