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Good morning, everyone. This is the october 6th, 2020 special budget and finance committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. Today im joined by Committee Members supervisor Rafael Mandelman and supervisor mat haney, substituting today for supervisor walton. Our clerk is miss linda long. Id like to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. Id like to put a motion to excuse supervisor shamann walton. Do i please have a roll call vote. Clerk on the supervisor, supervisor haney . Comments are opportunities to speak during Public Comment period, theyre available via phone call by calling 415 6550001. Again 415 655000 415 655000g i. D. 146 407 0690. Again 146 407 0690. Then press pound twice. You will hear the meeting discussion, but you will be in mute and in listeningmode only. ....
Enforcement in creating systemic change toward that goal. However, to have full conversation about policing it is imperative to deeply understand the system of policing and its budget, and that brings us to our hearing today. My office worked to include questions in the report that would give this committee as much insent insight as possible into the Police Department inned a vance of the process in august. I anticipate there may be questions asked today that there arent immediate answers to. My staff will be tracking the inquiries and work on the followup report and that the board has the information it needs. I would like to remind the committee that the Police Department budget would come before this committee again and come before us two more times and in august and engaged in the full budget process. I want to turn over to the presentation today nick menard from th ....
But just in the context of this hearing, id like to point out that the board has been so far, from what ive heard, asking a lot of questions about identifying sort of superfluous elements of the Police Budget such that can be cut, particularly in the light of this budget deficit. And these are only symptoms of a much broader problem, and lets not forget that the Biggest Issue with the police is that this is an institution that directly targets black and brown people and that the time has concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is ryan. I live in district 4. I urge for divestment of the sfpd. [indiscernible] and how education and Community Empowerment are how societies grow whereas reaction during punitive and literally oppresses people and holds bias for those struggling in so ma ....
Ongoing global chaos how far will optimism carry this ball run and is it sustainable we bring you that and more today so lets jump right in. And thousands of protesters continue to take the streets worldwide calling for reform to the Justice System after george floyd was killed in Police Custody in minneapolis minnesota couple weeks ago here in the United States demonstrators continued in nearly every major city including washington d. C. New york philadelphia chicago los angeles and San Francisco just to name a few meanwhile in germany 15000 protesters marched in leipzig on sunday and an estimated 25000 gathered in munich on saturday officials in australia said more than 20000 demonstrated in sydney with smaller protests taking place throughout the country in london ....
Happening and were going to be all over this and that story is going to be coming up in just a little bit but were going to begin with new video repeatedly the man was picked up by police earlier because he was found unconscious on the street and somebody reported it police did not arrest him instead they take him to a hospital and this scene which we warn some of you might find disturbing then ensues here it is. Ok watch you could see the officer hitting the man while. In the chair. Yeah with a flurry of fists to the face previously the officer seen punching and slapping the man repeatedly as well that was one of the pieces of video that we want to show you ok heres what you need to know about this the officer has been removed from that apartment he has now been a. Along with a fellow officer by the way but heres what else you need to know the man that he struck in the face was drunk. And repeatedly that man was insulting and threatening the officers even using racial slurs against th ....