Next speaker. I want to ask the Police Department to learn the side step when someone is coming towards you, with a knife, you learn the side step. Im disabled and 79, and can do the side step, tasers and guns are not just about equal, or just about equal in the damage that they do to humans, not acceptable, period. The side step. And someone is approaching you with a little knife do the side step, thank you. Next speaker please . Michael lion, San Francisco, gray panthers are absolutely against the use of tasers by the police in any kind of way. I particularly object to the calling them nonlethal. What you are asking to do is to have a Police Officer make a snap judgment on the medical condition of someone that they are about to tase. I look fairly hail and hearty, but i have had a triple by pass, who is to make a judgment on me . Are tasers necessary for this . I would say, no. Psych tech, works in a job where we are working with mentally ill people, they dont use them. Okay, you cou
With the civil rights implications that the supervisors spoke of today. You know, across the nation and in San Francisco, you will see the African American communities of color are impacted by accessive use of force that would lead us to believe that once they are instituted they would also be disproportionately used against the xhupts of color. Because they are easy to use it will increase over use and officers will be use it as the first line rather than reverting to what they used in training such as verbal commands and we also have outlined many incidents of litigation that have occurred. Just some follow up questions. Did you ever get a response from the mayor on your letter . No, we did not. And any of the staff in no. I think that the letter was actually really well done and it is well documented and there are a number of citations in here, do you recall what i read to commander ali, right now, referencing how it looks to be when tasers are involved in working with people who ha
Tasers and nonlethal protection for the officers and up against the mentally ill and challenged, has been going on for years. Tasers are as lethal as any gun, a gun is just as nonlethal as a tase and her if you spent half of the money that you have spent on conversation, debates ps, surveys and documentation and a little meetings like this, back into the Mental Health facility and the hospitals and the nonthe homeless shelters and get these people off the street, these officers are going to have not have half of the problems that is where the money should be going instead of the ridiculous conversations. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker please . Good morning, thank you for having this hearing today. My name is Jeremy Miller i am with the stelli foundation and the San Francisco no taser task force and i would like to six points. Number one, the Police Assassination of vanbue and parong were nothing other an assassination and should not be used in this context, especially prolong whos
Conversation, debates ps, surveys and documentation and a little meetings like this, back into the Mental Health facility and the hospitals and the nonthe homeless shelters and get these people off the street, these officers are going to have not have half of the problems that is where the money should be going instead of the ridiculous conversations. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker please . Good morning, thank you for having this hearing today. My name is Jeremy Miller i am with the stelli foundation and the San Francisco no taser task force and i would like to six points. Number one, the Police Assassination of vanbue and parong were nothing other an assassination and should not be used in this context, especially prolong whos family requested that the case nod not to be exploited for this. Two, as regards commander ali assertion that a person under the influence of drugs or experiencing Mental Health episodes would have a greater pain tolerance, the documented science regarding t
Little meetings like this, back into the Mental Health facility and the hospitals and the nonthe homeless shelters and get these people off the street, these officers are going to have not have half of the problems that is where the money should be going instead of the ridiculous conversations. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker please . Good morning, thank you for having this hearing today. My name is Jeremy Miller i am with the stelli foundation and the San Francisco no taser task force and i would like to six points. Number one, the Police Assassination of vanbue and parong were nothing other an assassination and should not be used in this context, especially prolong whos family requested that the case nod not to be exploited for this. Two, as regards commander ali assertion that a person under the influence of drugs or experiencing Mental Health episodes would have a greater pain tolerance, the documented science regarding that point is inconclusive what is ininclusive is the Sever