The 234 Apartment

SACRAMENTO -- When Sacramento police supervisors first reviewed the body cam video connected to their raid of Zityrua Abraham's apartment, the department told FOX40 nothing seen warranted an internal investigation. Abraham has now made a citizen's request for one, and the video has been made public. One of four clips released shows the moment Abraham says police went too far -- a moment she and her neighbors told FOX40 about exclusively the day after it happened -- the moment she says she was tossed down on her 7- month pregnant belly in a raid of the wrong house. Four days into the tenure of a new police chief, the body cam video FOX40 asked for a month ago is available. "My first reaction was..." said Abraham, looking down. "I was shocked a little bit and I was just irritated." Shocked and irritated because Abraham doesn't understand why there's no straight on view of her hitting the ground, since she took down the badge numbers of at least ...

David Engberg wheels through the third apartment he’s had in two years. PHOTO BY KARLOS RENE AYALA David Engberg and James Clark cling to their independence by a thread. Both men were born with cerebral palsy and live off Supplemental Security Income , or SSI—a stipend that puts them under the federal poverty line . So far, they’ve managed to keep a roof over their heads by splitting the cost of rent. But since the affordable housing crisis hit , the roommates have been priced out of two apartments in just two years. The stressful shuffling was witnessed by Jennifer Schmidt, their case manager at InAlliance, a nonprofit that provides employment and living services for people with disabilities. Advocates such as Schmidt are becoming increasingly alarmed by the way skyrocketing rents are affecting Sacramento County ’s 14, 000 disabled residents . Several independent surveys suggest Sacramento is experiencing some of the largest rent increases in the nation. Few feel those tectonic ma...