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San Francisco Police Raid Journalist's Home After He Refuses To Name Source

Police obtained a warrant to search the home of freelance videographer Bryan Carmody as part of an investigation into a leaked police report concerning the death of public defender Jeff Adachi.

San Francisco police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist on Friday, taking a sledgehammer to the gate of his house and seizing his computers, phones and other devices.

Their goal: to uncover the source of a leaked police report in the possession of freelance videographer Bryan Carmody.

The raids on Carmody's home and office are the latest in a series of events concerning the death of San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi in February, at age 59.

Within hours of Adachi's collapse the .

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