SPECIAL REPORT: Biased District Attorney Summer Stephan's Ties to Right Wing Extremists

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Curtis Briggs says the “BB gun” was a “100 percent glock replica” with no markings.

1. Status Coup Podcast covers a special report on San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan and the January 9 Pacific Beach protest case. 2. Tina Desiree Berg hosts the episode, Curtis Briggs appears as defense attorney for Jeremy White, and Jeremy White joins as one of the defendants in the Pacific Beach case. 3. The episode asks whether Summer Stephan’s office treated the Pacific Beach violence as an Antifa case while ignoring right-wing extremism and police bias. 4. Berg says Briggs filed a motion to disqualify Stephan based on ties to right-wing extremists and donations from American Guard and Proud Boys members. 5. Briggs and White say Stephan charged anti-fascist defendants while failing to bring charges against Trump supporters and other right-wing participants seen on video committing assaults. 6. White describes his background as a community organizer, artist, filmmaker, and activist from Los Angeles, and he says he has watched heightened fascism and white supremacy since late 2015. 7. The conversation ties Pacific Beach to January 6 and to earlier violence in Los Angeles, including an assault on Berlinda Nebo. 8. White says he entered the Pacific Beach scene as a street medic and treated injured people on both sides, including a woman with the right-wing group who had been maced. 9. Briggs says the grand jury presentation was one-sided and that prosecutors used Berg’s video while allegedly mischaracterizing or ignoring other footage. 10. The episode also discusses Sand Diego DDA Lindsay Harvey’s statement that prosecutors charged what they thought happened based on video and grand jury evidence. 11. Briggs argues that video shows a coordinated alley attack and says the people who carried it out were never charged, despite evidence that they were violent before and after the confrontation. 12. Berg and Briggs discuss a knife incident involving Ryan Luke, and White says he saw Luke standing with a large six-inch Bowie knife during the scuffle. 13. The episode also covers a juvenile identified in court filings as James Canard, whom the guests describe as carrying a Glock replica and firing at counter-protesters. 14. Briggs says Canard’s case appears to have disappeared even though he was arrested, and Berg says she could not find pending criminal action against him. 15. Aerial and dispatch audio then plays with officers saying the protest “appears to be hijacked by the Proud Boys,” and another call mentions a switchblade in a man’s right hand. 16. Briggs says that audio directly contradicts Matt Novak’s grand jury testimony that the “patriot side was cooperative,” while Berg says police and prosecutors ignored multiple videos and body-cam clips. 17. The tone is investigative and adversarial, with Berg interrupting to challenge testimony, cite footage, and press both guests for specifics. 18. The format mixes prerecorded interview segments, live commentary, dispatch audio, and on-air debate about what prosecutors and police did that day. 19. Listeners following January 6 prosecutions, protest policing, and DA bias will get the most from this. 20. People wanting a neutral recap of local California court politics may skip it.

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A sharp San Diego case report built on livestream detail, witness labels, and policing-bias claims.

Status Coup turns a San Diego court case into a pointed account of two January 9 proceedings in Pacific Beach, three days after the Capitol insurrection.

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