WTF San Francisco?

Sorry for the cut and past. The whole article is behind a paywall at TPM. 

When San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi died suddenly in February…local outlets reported a leaked confidential police report…the report said, Adachi was surrounded by drug paraphernalia and empty liquor bottles in a rented apartment with a woman who wasn’t his wife. Some railed against what they saw as a posthumous smear campaign originating with the San Francisco police, a group with which Adachi had endless bad blood…

…former police union leader Gary Delagnes wrote a Facebook post upon Adachi’s death: “In my 35 years in law enforcement I have never experienced a more vile, despicable, bottom feeding human being…This is a guy who was a serial adulterer who drove his wife to a suicide attempt. This is a guy who died in an apartment building waiting for a prostitute to return with his stomach medication. Only in San Francisco is Jeff Adachi a hero. Have your hero San Francisco and congratulations.”

City supervisors came down hard on the police for improperly releasing the report…Then, about two weeks ago, reporter Bryan Carmody says the police came calling. He declined to divulge his source…officers returned with a sledgehammer on Friday around 8 a.m.

“They treated me like I was some kind of drug dealer,” he said, adding that they checked his entire home and office with guns drawn. Carmody was handcuffed for about six hours while the search took place. Officers seized the police report, which was locked in Carmody’s office safe, as well as his electronics.

David Synder, the executive director at the First Amendment Coalition based in California, called the raid “baffling.”

“California penal code that governs search warrants expressly says that a search warrant can’t be used to get the information referenced in the shield law. That’s why the search warrant against Bryan Carmody is so baffling — it is expressly barred under California law.”