a string of recent shootings<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe reports indicated Singh was cited and released.<\/p>\n
A City Hall source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said police pulled over Singh for swerving and having an expired registration tag.<\/p>\n
Singh, who is a candidate for the city\u2019s District 1 city council seat, did not answer or return a call from KVPR on Monday morning. But acquaintances and supporters of his campaign took to social media to question the police encounter.<\/p>\n
In a Facebook post, Kiel Lopez-Schmidt, a housing advocate in the city\u2019s Tower District neighborhood, said Singh would hold a press conference at 5:30 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n
Lopez-Schmidt said he was with Singh at an event Saturday evening and that Singh \u201cwas as kind and sober as ever and showed no signs of intoxication.\u201d<\/p>\n
Singh supporters also posted what appeared to be a third-party toxicology report indicating Singh tested negative for drugs in a urine screen following his police encounter.<\/p>\n
Fresno Unified School District Trustee Genoveva Islas also defended Singh. She said she has known Singh for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a man of faith and conviction. The recent story about him is a targeted attack because [Singh] is fighting for trust and justice and will expose corruption,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Singh is the executive director of the civil rights nonprofit Jakara Movement, and also a Central Unified School District Trustee. In his race for the Fresno City Council, he is opposed by former federal prosecutor Rob Fuentes.<\/p>\n
Following Singh\u2019s arrest, Fuentes\u2019 campaign sent a mass text message stating the incident raised questions about Singh\u2019s judgement and that he should withdraw from the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Monday, Oct. 26 at 10 p.m. At a press conference Monday afternoon, Naindeep Singh denied allegations from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[237,13540,64131,11077,112,8019,114,113,3695,178993,141584,47504,85700],"class_list":["post-509180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-arrest","tag-candidate","tag-district-1","tag-dui","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-city-council","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-marek-warszawski","tag-naindeep-singh","tag-press-conference","tag-supporters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}