Comment on those items not appearing on the agenda. Good afternoon. Thank you, commissioners. My name is ellen. I have my name tag here. I am a public employee. I am a union delegate for government employees. I am also the director of Public Relations for california for the grand jury for the San Francisco chapter. I have been coming to you at the commissions with other government employees, many times. In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. The last time i was here was november 15, 2019, which is last month. I came before you demanding as a commission to investigate corruption within the commission department. Between april 2017 to july 2017, six Public Employees reported bribery, extortion and retaliation with the Ethics Commission department, but no record was found, and they never got back to us. I was one of the eight candidates for mayor, june 2018 election. I just finished my mayor run for the november election. I was one of the six mayor candidates for the last months election. I was bu
Also with us tonight or chief chief scott and director henderson from the Police Accountability board. You have a quorum. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. This is the december 11th, 2019 meeting of the San Francisco police commission. We do have a lengthy meeting tonight due to items on closed session and the complexity of the issues on the agenda so we will be limiting Public Comment to two minutes. Just a few housekeeping matters before we get started, there are some line items on the agenda that we will be removing from the agenda. Line item two is being removed from tonight agenda at the chief s request so sfpd and d. P. A. Can review and discuss. A line item one a is also being removed from the agenda. This is the presentation of the first and Second Quarter 2019 firearm discharge review board findings. That is an item that is obviously very important and we take seriously. I know many of us received the materials yesterday so we need additional time to look at the cases and pre
Remarkable places and events like this are really remarkable opportunities we have. I always like to start with these events especially on nights when we are inviting remarkable writers into our midst to talk a little bit about the shop. First i want to talk about richard bell tonight who is a scholar and writer, beautiful writer. This particular book really jumps in with this incredibly human picture of a young boy and from that moment i knew i was in short creative hands as well as scholarly hands. He is educated at cambridge and harvard and beloved professor at the university of maryland. One of the Major University system of maryland awards. I think if there is a round of applause as well its for people educating the next generation of people to have a sense of our history and a sense of what it means as human beings in the world but also particularly americans and someone from elsewhere dedicated to helping us mind history. He is a 2017 public scholar after the National Endowment
Good afternoon. Thank you, commissioners. My name is ellen. I have my name tag here. I am a public employee. I am a union delegate for government employees. I am also the director of Public Relations for california for the grand jury for the San Francisco chapter. I have been coming to you at the commissions with other government employees, many times. In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. The last time i was here was november 15, 2019, which is last month. I came before you demanding as a commission to investigate corruption within the commission department. Between april 2017 to july 2017, six Public Employees reported bribery, extortion and retaliation with the Ethics Commission department, but no record was found, and they never got back to us. I was one of the eight candidates for mayor, june 2018 election. I just finished my mayor run for the november election. I was one of the six mayor candidates for the last months election. I was bullied by democrats and Democratic Leaders from city
First candidate was going to tell us why we should elect him. Former great senator from the state of delaware, former Vice President joe biden. [applause]. Mr. Biden ok. Welcome. Mr. Biden thank you. It is good to be home. Vice president biden, we are in a room full of teamsters and i want you to tell all of them here and all of them watching, why they should vote for you. But no malarkey. [laughter] first of all i should thank you. The only reason im sitting here is a 1972, i was losing in the polls the sunday before the election. The newspaper went on strike. Ct the printers, you guys put in a gigantic insert in the sunday paper to go out on the republican party. Wouldnt cross the picket line, and i won by 3100 votes. [cheers and applause] you guys dont like secondary picket, youre wrong. We, the reason is, look, i am as my grandfather say, labor from belt buckle the shoe soul. I understood very basic notion. Wall street didnt build the United States of america. The middle class buil