Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE Entertainment Commission 20161005

Of Law Enforcement and they cause their hands are tied. They tell us they cant do anything. They say its the board of supervisors that are causing a lot of this stuff. I happen to knowi lived in San Francisco for 40 years that raised five black children in the city and ive worked with Law Enforcement and while its true you cant take the player you have to hate the game, this game started during slavery and thats the elephant in the room which the board of supervisors sign and the ordinance that pointed out that San Francisco had noted that slavery was a crime but we still follow the laws that slavery started. So the police hands are tied because they have to follow the laws that were written during slavery times which its easier to kill a man than to write up a report. So while i worked were worked with sf pd and found they work with me its a lot of work but now theres a lot of discourse in the community and there are certain neighborhoods where they been noted as the where nobody that nobodys art and sfpd is not doing anything about the lawlessness its going on. I have to come back next week to bring up that. Thank you. Sorry to bother you. Thank you next speaker, please. My name is for one speaker at a time. You can speak, sir and then you can speak next my name is brian hamlin and i can merely speak about brisbane but mdm. Pres. Will do that now. I do want to speak on behalf of what weve been hearing and why i think it so important to take the findings of the Blue Ribbon Panel seriously. While i have not been the victim of Police Violence in the city of friends who have. One friend who left the city was shot in the face with a beanbag gun during the world series some years ago. He was walking home that hes a dorky mathematician but i guess walking on black in the mission was sufficient to arouse violence i suppose. Another friend or friend of a friend was performing a couple watch also in the mission. When the Police Officer directed into leave to cross the street and go away, he stepped back but said i can go back all the way or not quick to be able to witness what youre doing least not like that insert and they beat him unconscious. He was charged with assaulting Police Officers that suppose his head and chest assaulted their fists and boots. He is no longer in San Francisco. I have with my colleagues are heartbreaking conversation that the talks shift that wouldve black sons about doing with the police. Not arresting suspicion and not encouraging out. He started and stopped many times in one of the nicest 19 oclock the permit. Thank you. Next speaker, please. One piece of this puzzle in addition to all be vitally needed reforms that this commission and other people are bringing forward is having the ability or our cops, for our teachers, for people who are providing the vitally needed services to live in the communities they are policing. That is so critical. The only way that we are going to achieve that is if we build significantly more housing in every neighborhood. Bergen have integrated racially diverse and economically diverse neighborhoods amount we need more housing for the people who serve those communities to live in those communities. It is all connected. Thank you. Thank you. Before the next speaker comes to the podium just a reminder that there are no audible sounds in the chamber as it is prohibited by the boards rules. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you very much matter president s and board of supervisors. Karenfrom district 3 want to say i emailed my supervisor last week about the homeless this is nothing to do with them talking about but because i felt they needed water would was so hot and i was at 4 am and supervisor peskin got back to me in 5 min. And said he would look into it. But important today is for saul to thank judge kordell for her litany of hope the abuse and omission was it a culture of silence and bounds is old. This attribute to Albert Williams who was the first known member of the National Association of advancement of colored people to be murdered for his civil rights activities. His birthday will be next week and he was murdered in brownsville june 20, 1940 it was born on october 15 19 away. To Marion Albert in tennessee, assuming that farm the land albert and his wife and tried farming the left for brownsville county seat to start a laundry devoted citizens enjoy the na aa cp black people do not vote with impunity. Alisha davis and four other africanamericans from the end eight acp tie to register may 6, 1940 and were harassed. David was forced to name names the town. We him stay. He stayed to die. The man called ed lea cocacola man so that williams was jailed for no reason but the crime of registering to vote. June 17 he was imprisoned and on the third day he was released and found floating in riverhead down to bullet holes in his chest get the one convicted of the mark. No one. The grand jury said sparrow perpetrators unknown. But we had a wife and was beloved by many lever of the committee were blacks were permitted to meet together except for church, he was quickly buried in a marked grave never to rise again until justice became loud enough to be heard all the way to california. Screamed enough, enough solids, enough blood. Enough hatred. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im kimwith justice for Mario Woods Coalition. This paragraph from the Blue Ribbon Panel report really struck me how to read it as my comments. Some Community Members expressed their perception that black men cannot walk down the sidewalk in the bayview without being harassed by sfpd officers. Bayview residents also shared their view that sfpd officers stopping black people for minor infractions. Further, theres perception that officers stopped black people in overly aggressive manner perpetuating the idea that officers view all black people is dangerous. This view was compared to the perception that police treat people with courtesy in predominantly white neighborhoods. So in the past few months i visited them mario woods morrill industry also visited that Jessica Williams memorial in the street after those experiences i want to ask the board of supervisors to fix this problem. In the bayview and other communities of color in San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is jackie barr shot. Im here to echo what has been said already and to urge the board of supervisors to take leadership on the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Panel. I want to talk about two of those recommendations could extending whistleblower protections to those within the department is one of those recommendations. It is number six on page 96 of the report and it leaves that there is no San Francisco Police Department policy that either emphasizes this City Ordinance because, as you know, we already have the San Francisco whistleblower protection ordinance. It already exists and yet it makes clear that whistleblower protection there is nothing within the San Francisco Police Department manual werethat makes clear whistleblower protection is a priority for the department. Neither does it extend the protection of the ordinance to reporters of all types of violations of San Francisco Police Department. Policy. So what would it take for these protections to be extended by you, this body, to report so that all reports of San Francisco Police Department violations, particularly coverup gross acts of misconduct, are not punished by threats or intimidation were retaliation. It is really up to this body to create a task force were an agency or department that is tasked with providing protection for whistleblowers. Another recommendation is using her legislative power to engage thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is Darrell Rogers on with the Mario Woods Coalition but particularly on here because ive been a resident of San Francisco all my life. Im 70 years old i grew up in the Richmond District of San Francisco so i know what could policing is. From what i can see the police chief offered a statement that he is implementing over 80 of the Enforcement Police enforcement but when he failed to mention was the 20 that is not being implemented is the most critical part of that whole plan. Those are the things that would come 01, you would give him the opportunity as well as you the opportunity to actually hold police accountable. Those things are the first thing the poa says can happen. The second, the thing thats probably the most critical of all of that is that it doesntthey do not allow for the good police to actually say anything separate from what the poa version is. That is kind of bad. As a citizen of San Francisco and as a member of this community and as someone voted for most of you on this board at one point or another in my life, its time to stop in the indignity that is given to most people of color in the city by San Francisco Police Department. It is time for you to say, like we say, enough is enough. It is time to become real. Lets deal with the problems stop trying to hide behind the words. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello board my name is david i love very with the San Francisco for Police Accountability justice for mario justice forcoalition. With regard to the use of force policy, the poa was in the room from the very beginning starting in december as part of the working group was working on the use of force. They had no business doing there in the first place because these are policy issues that the poa billy is not agenda middle east concerned about. The poa as a union can be legitimately concerned about the workers wages and about the working conditions. They have been inserted themselves into the policy arena and are golden forth and stopping the use of force from going forward. Only were they there from the beginning in the working group that drafted the use of force that finally was voted on it unanimously as a Police Commission, then they are now getting a second bite at the apple through the meet and confer prospect the aclu has sent the commission a letter citing the case law that makes it very clear that the only body in San Francisco that has a policy authority is the commission and so chief interim chief tony chaplin notwithstanding, the problem is that the commission has not pushed back on the poa and get them out of the policy arena. Finally, one of the reasons why chaplin is been supported by the poa because he said in the chronicle that there is no culture problem in sfpd. Thats what he said that theres no culture problem in sfpd. Clearly, that is surprising in the face of reality that the Blue Ribbon Panel has discovered and that alone makes him unqualified for the job of our next police chief. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Karen fleischmann justice for mario woods and San Francisco i do not see the sense of the problem until i saw the mario was execution video. The second time in a realized the depth of the problem was january 22 when i attended my First Police Commission meeting and in a career of attending Public Meetings ive never seen a group of Civil Servants behave in the way the San Francisco Police Officers association behaved at that meeting. They have absolute complete disregard for their oversight. They are there in front of the oversight walking to find bully their way up to the microphone read their testimony, leave and shout, this is how we win show of force. Like a game. This is the way they behave in front of their oversight body, what are they doing out in the street when theres no media, public or oversight happening. I urge you to break the power of the poa problem certain third good officers and sfpd all 2100 of them are akin to beating an average of 150 to the poa. Why . The poa provides that form of vehicle insurance. If officers have legal problems the poa represents him as the one which breaker powers provide legal Insurance Options the same way we have health Insurance Options to officer. Searches requiring them to ensure themselves giving them a rebate on their insurance premiums at retirement if they never have a vehicle problem throughout their entire career. We need to discipline and fire all the killer officers. The officers who killed mario return to work in january. We need to make sure we dont higher killers like officerfrom other departments. Officers served a mission Police Department and he killed [inaudible] in south city and we knew that and we still thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is totally 20 wo blistered him with heritage foundation. Minister mohammed earlier said institutions have to be forced to change. I am born and raised in San Francisco. Many are born here and many that are born here die here italicsmario was. The bus takes many forms. See the economic violence levied on our communities that reverberate seems to be overt violence or communities are experiencing at the hands of lawenforcement. That is demonstrated for the most part it does not value our lives and when i say our lives people of color, young men of color young women of color. The attitude of the poa in its public statements reflect the ugly legacy and racist attitudes that still persists. We have a history of debug view maces him in this country we met with Brilliant Minds that account to the forefront couldve tried to get us to change that mindset but still try to change a mindset often times is like buying to remove nails from a board by using your fingers. Thats how deep this legacy of racism goes. The Blue Ribbon Panel just told us basically what many people in this chamber already knew. I think for our community its about taking back our lives in and of future we want. But that future we want for our children do we want this to go once. To want the system the system of White Supremacy being paraded around in many different shades. The attitude the poa has broadcast is really america and that america that part of america that has not come to grips with itself the america that america refuses to see what it looks at itself in a mirror. He was thank you thank you next speaker, please. I did recruitment for sf pd after september 11, 2001 bermuda terrorist attack in new york. That june the San Francisco policewoman had recruiting drive. I do most successful recruitment drive in history of San Francisco 50 budgeted hours able to get 2300 applicants. The reason that i did it because im a gay man my father died of aids and like scott weiner said a lot of gay male officers died of aids. I wanted to replenish my gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered folk within the Police Department to figure the kind of people i knew not be the racist to get it folks that seem to permeate the sfpd am so saddened to hear that since 2011 sfpd has got worse. It has got worse. What did scott weiner ever do to increase the Lgbt Community in the Police Department . That he keeps on talking about sir, can you address the comments to the board as a whole and not to any individual supervisor are supervisor does everything to help the sfpd. He stands behind their racism or homophobia. Some of those tax delivered the racist text the leopard in that scandal, one of those people was again the officer. So it hurts me when a game and also gets on top of the racism history within our country is shameless. Why would somebody not want to be out in San Francisco in sf pd part of out to bt community. Is there a hostile working environment are lgbt people that they have to be closeted . What is rt supervisor to doing to stop the homophobia within the sf pd and the racism thank you. Before i called the next speaker supervisor avalos did you have a comment . I was cannot wait but i realize the Police Department is not here anymore. He was okay, thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is inmember of the justice for mario with coalition faculty member ucsf participant in the do no Harm Coalition former sponsors healthcare needs of the hunger strikers and a resident of district 7. When i saw young man crotch against the wall being surrounded by eight officers shot by five naira homeless man does not speak english shall within 30 seconds but officer getting out of his car when i found out about a pregnant woman shot in a moving vehicle i felt sick alarmed and activated. I saw obvious violations of already established police policy. Ive not yet seen a