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September 9, 2020 | $1.50 inside 4)"52/.s"%,6%$%2%s342!7"%229 34/,%. 0,!4% TIBURON WILL #)493%43$!4% Named California’s best !,%24,%!$3 #/.3)$%2()+% FOR HEARING small community weekly General Excellence winner, 2019 California News Publishers 4/#(!3%!.$ TO GARBAGE /.&,//$0,!). Association, 2018 & 2019 National Newspaper Association MANHUNT 2!4%33%04 ,//0(//,%3 Designer’s Volume 48, Issue 37 | thearknewspaper.com Page 9 Page 9 Page 13 first-open Chief, cop step down amid profiling claim Sergeant resigns, but officials say investigation will continue Undersheriff will take over for retiring police chief checklist: By HANNAH WEIKEL his post. By HANNAH WEIKEL department handled an August exchange [email protected] In a Sept. 1 Tiburon Talk newsletter [email protected] with a Black business owner and reacted ——— emailed to residents, Town Manager Greg ——— to a June Black Lives Matter rally held in The Tiburon police sergeant whose Chanis announced Sgt. Michael Blasi had Tiburon Police Chief Michael Cronin will Marin City. heated late-night exchange with a local voluntarily resigned that day and would retire from the department’s top job Sept. 13 Town Manager Greg Chanis announced Black business owner sparked town- leave the Tiburon Police Department imme- — a move town ofcials said has been in Cronin’s departure in a Tiburon Talk wide discussions on racial bias within ——— the works for “some time” but comes amid ——— Find&Replace law enforcement has resigned from See 3%2'%!.4 0!'% public scrutiny over the way Cronin and his See #()%& 0!'% K R A E H Marin’s plans to reopen dates on T / FOR FOR / gyms, theaters and The anchor IVES more delayed by state Master Pages Page 5 OT KARLAN OT ARCH I of Tiburon ELL Sam’s Anchor Cafe celebrates a century on the bay Towns take over "Y$%)2$2%-C#2/(!. dation for the town’s landmark busi- expansive views of the bay. enforcement of [email protected] nesses: Sam’s Anchor Cafe. Though local historians still debate ——— A century later, the bar and restau- exactly when Vella started the busi- virus complaints PROHIBITION HAD JUST been rant is the peninsula’s longest continu- ness — and even whether it was re- enacted in the U.S. when Sam Vella ously operating eatery and a mainstay ally in 1920 — Sam’s is celebrating its began slinging drinks on Tiburon’s on Tiburon’s Main Street waterfront 100th anniversary this year, though about businesses shoreline. His bar — a wooden plank for locals and tourists alike, a place to the county’s coronavirus-related re- over a pair of sawhorses under a tent see and be seen with its twin dining ——— 20 reported on Tiburon Peninsula; on the beach — would lay the foun- rooms and massive rear deck ofering See 3!-3 0!'% few investigated as county loses track By HANNAH WEIKEL [email protected] ——— Marin ofcials have abandoned a countywide task force created to investigate tips about businesses vio- lating COVID-19 health orders and will instead leave it up to cities and towns like Tiburon and Belvedere to handle local complaints and issue warnings or citations. The decision, efective Sept. 1, comes after difcul- ties streamlining the complaint system, county of- cials said, specifcally problems with managing and following up on the hundreds of complaints the county has received since mid-July. That includes nearly 20 complaints about business- es on the Tiburon Peninsula, including at least nine in Tiburon, two in Belvedere and eight in Strawberry. For more than half of those, the county either never followed up or couldn’t say what actions were taken, if any. “In the end, we decided it would be more efcient to do this locally,” said Angela Nicholson, assistant coun- ——— See #/-0,!).43 0!'% Tiburon 8 | Belvedere 13 | Police Logs 17 | In Memoriam 23 | ArkBeat 25 | Classifieds 25 Weekend Weather | H Friday 69° 56° | B Saturday 68° 57° | B Sunday 65° 55° High-End Remodels & New Construction .BJO4USFFU 4BVTBMJUP $"ttTUSPVCDPOTUSVDUJPODPNt4UBUF-JD THE AR K sS E PTE MBE R 9, 2020 thearknewspaper.com “Our relationships with local farmers strengthen our business. Our relationship with First Republic is no dif erent.” NICOLE KRASINSKI, Pastry Chef and Owner, State Bird Provisions and T e Progress STUART BRIOZA, Chef and Owner, State Bird Provisions and T e Progress (855) 886-4824 | f rstrepublic.com | New York Stock Exchange symbol: FRC MEMBER FDIC AND EQUAL HOUSING LENDER Ark 03-25-20 Krasinski ND17.indd 1 2/19/20 1:00 PM facebook.com/thearknewspaper 3%04%-"%2 sT HE AR K LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SINCE NOVEMBER 15, 1972 Incident unfortunate, but police Is it our regular practice to hire police ofcers with prior /FFICE 415-435-2652 $ISPLAYADS 415-435-1190 histories of abusive conduct? If so, why? As the continuing !DDEADLINES 5 p.m. Wednesday; camera-ready, noon Thursday hiring practices need explanation Black deaths across the country show day after day, police /WNER AMMI Publishing Co. Inc. Few things have divided Tiburon as much as the police’s have the power to make summary life-and-death decisions. 0UBLISHERS Alison T. Gray and Arthur H. Kern confrontation with Yema Khalif. After reading all the com- Any doubt about a police ofcer’s qualifcations based on $IRECTOROF"USINESS!DVERTISING ments published in The Ark, all thoughtful, there are three prior conduct has to be resolved against the police ofcer at Henriette Corn, [email protected] clear takeaways. the outset. Executive Editor — Mitchell Green, Tiburon Kevin Hessel, [email protected] First, the police ofcer’s decision to investigate was com- !SSISTANT3PECIAL3ECTIONS%DITOR pletely proper and his failure to do so would have been ne- Emily Lavin, [email protected] glectful. Second, Mr. Khalif’s response was rude and hostile. Land of personal, property rights; #ALENDAR#OPY%DITOR Third, the police follow up was also rude and hostile, even Diana Goodman, [email protected] though all of the ofcers involved were supposedly trained home of compliance to police state? Accounts Manager Leigh Pagan [email protected] to de-escalate confrontations. I am surprised at the number of people who see nothing 3TAFFREPORTERS What is not so clear from all the comments is an appre- wrong with what happened at Yema on Aug. 21. My parents Deirdre McCrohan, [email protected] ciation that Mr. Khalif had no obligation to cooperate with Hannah Weikel, [email protected] fed a country where “the authorities” could demand to see the police. He was not doing anything wrong. What seems “your papers” any time, any place. Here in the U.S.A., we Contributing writers underappreciated is that not everyone regards the police Michelle Aschwald, Joan Bekins, Carol Benet, pride ourselves on our individual and property rights, but it as friends or welcomes their appearance, especially late at Marybeth Bond-Sheppard, Hillary Don, Gretchen Lang, seems some people are happy to give those up in the name of Heather Lobdell, Diane Lynch, Ann Mizel, Rosine Reynolds, night on a deserted street. Some people, Mr. Khalif appar- “safety.” Or maybe they just think other people should give Cynthia Shaver, Diane Smith, Robin Scott Wray ently among them, have good reason for this based on prior #ONTRIBUTINGPHOTOGRAPHERS up those rights. encounters and more. The simple explanation for this con- Frank Fennema, Elliot Karlan, Clara Lu, Diane Smith, Rachel Simpson — Mike Preiss, Belvedere ,AYOUT$ESIGN|$IGITAL#ONTENT Kevin Hessel fict is not that Mr. Khalif should have invited the ofcer in The Ark is an adjudicated newspaper of general circulation by the for a cup of cofee, or to blame Mr. Khalif because he was Marin County Superior Court on Dec. 19, 1973, case No. 69007. not deferential. Fixing problem at Yema starts at Published and delivered by mail on Wednesdays. All rights reserved. The outcome as of this date – one ofcer’s resignation Copyright © 2020 AMMI Publishing Co. Inc. — is unfortunate and was perhaps too hasty. However, the top — with councilmembers the fashing-red-light issue right now is the Tiburon Police The Belvedere and Tiburon councils have no place to hide The Ark (USPS012310) is published Wednesdays and is delivered by postal mail for $69.50 one year, $129.50 two years ($84.50 one year, Department’s hiring and screening practices. Given the al- after the Zoom meeting on police brutality in Tiburon. It’s a $154.50 two years outside the 94920, 94941 and 94925 ZIP codes) by legations that one of the ofcers involved had a prior history disgrace that the problem has existed for so many years. It AMMI Publishing Co. Inc., 1550 Tiburon Blvd., Ste. D, Tiburon, CA 94920. No refunds. Periodical postage paid at the Belvedere-Tiburon Post Office, Tiburon, CA 94920. of abusive conduct leading to the death of a prisoner in cus- ——— 0OSTMASTERSend address changes to The Ark, P.O. Box 1054, Tiburon, CA 94920. tody, Tiburon needs an explanation with complete clarity. See ,%44%23 0!'% 35"-)33)/.30/,)#9AMMI Publishing Co. Inc. reserves the right to relicense, re- produce, reprint and republish without compensation to the author and/or submitting 35"-)49/52,%44%24/4(%%$)4/2The Ark welcomes letters to the editor. They should be 350 words or fewer and submitted electroni- party, all or any part of submitted works including, but not limited to, articles, letters, notices, artwork, images, photographs and advertisements submitted to The Ark. cally. The Ark reserves the right to edit all letters for clarity and will not knowingly publish those containing false or misleading informa- AMMI Publishing Co. Inc. shall have the absolute right to use the above-mentioned tion.