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Wednesday 4 January 2023
Idaho slayings suspect agrees to extradition to face charges

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM happen and a lot of play-
Associated Press ers involved in that, and
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — so I just I can't speculate
A criminology graduate to how quickly that could
student charged in the occur," Dahlinger said last
November slayings of four week. Kohberger's relatives
University of Idaho students in Pennsylvania have ex-
agreed Tuesday to be ex- pressed sympathy for the
tradited from Pennsylvania, families of the victims but
where he was arrested last vowed to support him and
week, to face charges in promote "his presumption
Idaho. Bryan Kohberger, a of innocence."
28-year-old doctoral stu- His parents, Michael and
dent and teaching assis- Maryann, and his two older
tant at Washington State sisters, Amanda and Melis-
University, was arrested sa, said in a statement re-
early Friday by state po- leased Sunday by his attor-
lice at his parents' home in ney that they "care deeply
eastern Pennsylvania, au- for the four families who
thorities said. have lost their precious chil-
Wearing a red jumpsuit with dren. There are no words
his hands shackled in front that can adequately ex-
of him, Kohberger showed press the sadness we feel,
little emotion during Tues- Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students, is escorted to an and we pray each day for
day's brief hearing in a extradition hearing at the Monroe County Courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. them." The family said that
Associated Press
Pennsylvania courtroom in relatives will continue to let
which he acknowledged sumed innocent and "not adding that investigators Federal and state investiga- the legal process unfold,
facing four counts of first- tried in the court of public obtained samples of Koh- tors are combing through and that "as a family we
degree murder and a bur- opinion," said the public berger's DNA directly from Kohberger's background, will love and support our
glary charge. defender, Jason LaBar. him after he was arrested. financial records and elec- son and brother." They say
It was not immediately After Tuesday's hearing, La- DNA evidence played a tronic communications as they have fully cooperated
clear how soon authorities bar described Kohberger key role in identifying Koh- they work to build the case with law enforcement to try
would arrange for Koh- as "an ordinary guy." berger as a suspect, and against him, the official to "seek the truth and pro-
berger's transport back to Capt. Anthony Dahlinger, officials were able to match who spoke anonymously mote his presumption of in-
Idaho — a process that is of the Moscow Police De- his DNA to genetic material said. The investigators are nocence rather than judge
generally kept secret be- partment in Idaho, told The recovered during the in- also interviewing people unknown facts and make
cause of security concerns. Associated Press on Satur- vestigation, a law enforce- who knew Kohberger, in- erroneous assumptions."
The chief public defender day that authorities believe ment official said last week. cluding those at Washing- Latah County prosecutors
in Monroe County, Penn- Kohberger was responsible The official spoke on condi- ton State University, the of- in Idaho have said they be-
sylvania said his client is for all four slayings. The tion of anonymity because ficial said. lieve Kohberger broke into
eager to be exonerated students were stabbed to they were not authorized Authorities have not yet the students' home near
and plans to tell a judge death at a rental home to publicly discuss details of released any information the university campus in-
in Pennsylvania that he will near campus in Moscow, the ongoing investigation. about how or when Koh- tending to commit murder.
waive his extradition hear- Idaho, sometime in the ear- Investigators have said they berger will be transported Their bodies were found
ing so he can be quickly ly morning hours of Nov. 13. are still looking for a murder back to Idaho. Nov. 13, several hours after
taken to Idaho. "We believe we've got weapon and a motive for "There's a lot of layers to fig- investigators believe they
Kohberger should be pre- our man," said Dahlinger, the killings. uring out how to make that died.q

Report analyzes racial profiling in

California traffic stops

pedestrian stops in 2021, The 58 agencies — which was perceived to be His-
as compared to people includes the 23 largest de- panic or Latino, according
believed to be white, ac- partments in the state — to the report.
cording to a state report collectively made more More than 30% were per-
released Tuesday. than 3.1 million vehicle and ceived to be white and
The annual report by Cali- pedestrian stops in 2021. By 15% were believed to be
fornia's Racial and Iden- April, all of California's more Black.
tity Profiling Advisory Board than 400 law enforcement But law enforcement
gathered data on vehicle agencies must submit their searched people who were
and pedestrian stops by of- data. perceived to be Black at
ficers from 58 law enforce- The data includes how of- 2.2 times the rate of people
A California Highway Patrol officer stops a motorist who was ment agencies in 2021. ficers perceive an individ- thought to be white, the re-
suspected of speeding along Interstate 5 freeway on April 23,
2020, in Anaheim, Calif. The data includes what of- ual's race or gender, even port said.
Associated Press ficers perceived to be the if it's different than how the And teenagers 15 to 17
race, ethnicity, gender and person identifies, because years who who were per-
disability status of people the officer's perception is ceived to be Black were
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cali- likely to use force against they stop so that the state what drives bias. searched at nearly six times
fornia law enforcement people they perceived as can better identify and an- In more than 42% of the 3.1 the rate of teens believed
was more than twice as Black during vehicle and alyze bias in policing. million stops, the individual to be white.q