you. >> i would like to thank supervisor cohen for stepping up to the plate, and supervisor avalos for being part of the rally outside. amongst black residents in this city, there is a notion the city is trying to get rid of us. when we see a man arrested on an airplane for his clothes, it sends a message. i am asking the supervisors that if you believe in the constitution and you believe in justice, stand up for what is right. if you don't, send a statement. 10 officers came to grab him. i know he is black, but does that made him terrifying? seriously. that could've been any of you, or your relatives. you would have been furious about that.

you can understand what is right. it would send a statement to the residence, the black residents of san francisco. thank you very much. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am a native of ethiopia. i have been here over 22 years in the western edition. -- addition. the sfpd and the sheriff's department should live within a 75 mile radius. most of the cops i have met came very far. anyone with a high-school g.d. can become a harasser. -- g e d can become a harasser.

thank you. >> good afternoon. i am the executive youth -- director of the library users association and have a slightly different story, although it involves a contempt for the public. the ethics commission voted unanimously that the library commission president acted in willful violation of the law when she shouted down a member of the public during an library commission meeting and prevented her from making public comment as required by law. the ethics commission is to send a letter to the mayor about the matter, recommending that she be removed from office. i have previously played the tape for this body. i will not do so again except to say it was pretty ugly. what did the president of the library commission, ms. gomez, say?

she described her action as "raising my voice" and characterized it as indecorous. when the ethics commission intentions became clearer she returned to say she felt insulted by the speaker who she had shut down. a librarian is the only person who testified in her support. the week herrera, the librarian, has repeatedly insisted that his top priority is books and materials and open hours. so how does he explain the proposed budget that he brought to the library commission february 3, calling for a $500,000 cut in library books and materials? following public outcry, the library commission reversed the cut, but recently yet again mr. herrera testified publicly to

the same priorities even as the book budget has a zero increase and the overall budget for the library is increasing $3.30 million for the next fiscal year. president chiu: next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors. arnold townsend. people have spoken about deshawn marmon adequately and well. i would like to make a recommendation to all of you. there is a series of books written by [unintelligible] you can get them at marcus books. i hope that is not a plug. i guess it is. i would recommend them highly, this series of books. it is called "countering the conspiracy to destroy black boys." there is something going on in america now, and it was going on with any group of people we

would be outraged. but because society has been so successful at demonizing young black boys, we accept it and actually live in fear. i am not afraid of my own children. i don't care how dangerous they become. i will give you one statistic that this book contains. it is in 1995 statistic. this book was written in the 70's and started as one volume. you can see some much of what it predicted has come to pass. the one statistic of wanted to give you -- it is full of them -- is that african american children make up 17% of the school population in america, but make up more than 40% of the children who are in special education. i think it is 47%. of that 47%, 85% are black boys.

we cannot survive like that. we are graduating less than 200 black boys in san francisco out of high school every year. we are creating a society that even those of you who believe the only place for black boys is prison, you are not going to be able to build them fast enough because of what we are allowing to happen in our schools. and that is the real truth. [applause] president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. aspin knowledge jackson -- espinola jackson. i am here today because of the fact -- and i am talking to you. i do not come here often. but because of my skin, my relative -- my kin, my relative, i am asking you supervisors to please support the resolution. it is not going to hurt anyone for supporting it. we are living in a sad, sad

situation here. and just to see and hear the cry of mothers coming before you -- when i do watching tv, it saddens me. i was at a meeting yesterday with 21 men sitting around the table. each one of those 20 women was stating the fact that their children had had a lung removed, had bad cases of asthma. i wish you all could hear these women talk about what is happening to them, and what is happening in our area, especially in the southeast sector, the toxins we are inhaling. i am so proud of deshawn. as the seventh generation of my family here in san francisco, and there are four under me, i am here to ask for your support

of the resolution, and i am hoping you do that before i leave, because i have to go to another meeting. thank you all, and you have a blessed day. [applause] president chiu: next speaker. >> ♪ it seems like a pity to see so many pretty people with frowns on their face they go walking around had to the ground looking like they're losing the human race we could all be winners if we remembered to stop competing with everyone else ♪ the competition should and -- end ♪the qvc is in your heart ♪

my ukulele has often stolen. height campaign has a i have sent her eyes. we can unite against this incredible wrong to torment and torment and corpsman again. when i am mayor, we will have david and's holiday. we will have lalas where a good samaritan or a witness has to come forward. they will stand up for her brothers or sisters of any age, any color, and the sexual preference. we have to stand together for the light. i will make this place crowd. we will give up the violence and voluntarily help each other to the light. we can and we will.

we can turn around south africa with the help of all of those people. we can turn around the city. we can turn around ourselves and we can flourish. i love you very much. >> thank you. next speakers, please step up. >> and the afternoon. i do not have much to say. that is the reason i am here. to our supervisor, thank you for holding the event and supporting us. hopefully, you can continue to come together and support the cause. we just need to correct that so that we are able to get along and do whatever it is that we

need to do to survive and educate the youth . thank you very much for having us here. >> next speaker. excuse me, sir. i think you already spoke. thank you very much. thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is cynthia carter. i am here in support of the mormon as well as to say the -- something similar as far as

abuse from the sfpd. my son was in the car with his wife. he stopped at a stop sign, looked at the police. he made a left turn then followed him for a blocked until there was nowhere -- no one around to be a witness. she's got my son and his wife. they said that she ran a stop sign. he did not run a stop sign. he fixes his clothes. they run and jump to start leaving my son, who did nonesuch -- and did nothing or said nothing to them. this violence from the sfpd has to stop. it has to stop. it is really uncalled for.

this really has to stop. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? would you please read the adoption without committee reference calendar? >> these are being considered without committee reference. these will be acted on with a single roll call vote unless a commissioner calls for an action item. >> would anybody like to sever any items? supervisor farrell: i was like to sever item 37? >> supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye.

supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd aye. there are 11 ayes. president chiu: those resolutions are adopted. >> this is a resolution commending the octagon house. >> thank you, colleagues. this is for a historic landmark in my district. it was built in 1861 for the mcelroy family that lived there until the late 1800's. it is designated as a landmark. it was added to the national register of historic places in 1972. tomorrow, we are celebrating its 150th anniversary. i look forward to presenting the

certificate to them tomorrow. >> can we take this item? without objection, this resolution is adopted. my apology -- >> mycology's really quick. i do have a technical amendments. i need a motion to adopt the as chemical armaments. >> this is seconded by supervisor campos. without objection. that shall be the case. we will take the underlying resolution as amended. without objection, this resolution is adopted. madam clark, could you please read today's in memoriams. >> on behalf of supervisor elsbernd, on behalf of war powers and dennis. >> is there any more business in front of this body?

>> that concludes our business. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourn for the day.

>> reporting equipment in the room. would you please stand for pledge of alenalance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic from which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> taking a roll call of commissioners. commission president thomas mazzucco. >> present. >> dr. joe marshall? >> here. >> petra dejesus? >> she's en route.

>> commissioner angela chan? >> present. >> commissioner carol kingsley? >> present. >> commissioner james slaughter? >> here. >> commissioner julius turman? >> here. >> we have a quorum of commissioners and also joyce hicks of the office of citizens complaints and the chief of police. >> thank you, lieutenant falvey. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the july 13, 2011 police commission hearing. ladies and gentlemen, tonight is what we call our discipline night so we have some closed matters, disciplinary hearings which by law have to be held in closed session so we have a very light agenda before that so we now move to line item number one which is general public comment. >> item number one, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not individual commissioners or department or

o.c.c. personnel. under police commission rules of order, during public comment, neither police or o.c.c. personnel or commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and o.c.c. personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussions with speakers during public comment and public comment is set at three minutes. >> thanks very much. first speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. chief i don't see here. joyce i don't see here. my name is jackie bryson, jakkie, bryson, bryson. i live at 75 -- ore street apartment 206 at between ninth and 109, folsom and howard. first thing's first. i have some commendations to

throw down. first of all, i'd like to commend the san francisco police department for their handling of the pride impromptu rave which happened on sunday afternoon. the officers whose noses weren't as acute as mine, once i pointed out as i was dancing around with these children who had taken part and their parents had no ideas what their daughters weren't wearing. i was a guidance counselor, junior high and high school, i used to chaperon the dances and they're rocking out and drinking and smoking and i found police officers and i said just take care of it because these kids shouldn't be doing that. my main concern was that there were so many young people crowded into one very, very small space. i was very concerned about that. i got the littler ones back towards me. i had a parasol.

they wanted the instant shade and i said come on, dance by me and if it gets too scary, walk out of here. and the way the officers handled it was lovely. next year, work out some sort of crowd control plan because that scared me and i'm not afraid of no nothing. second commendation. i want to thank my boys down at southern station for those extra passing calls and it's lovely and those bicycle nazis carrying drugs, riding their bicycles on the sidewalks. thank you. and basically speaking, i say yes, sir, because you commissioners did right in your choice. joyce, i want to commend you and keep up the good work. you guys, you're a good-looking group. >> jakkie, come back any time you want. >> thank you. i shall. wait a second.

i have 31 more seconds. a shout out to david lazard. let me tell you what jerry did. he figured out -- one of my favorite genini's, you need the door unlocked to tenderloin station because it's the only safe public phone. also, he managed, jerry just did it. and joe garrity, wow. john veranda is still the cutest guy on the department. ok. thank you. now i better get my butt home. thank you. >> good evening, sir, how are you? >> good evening, commissioners, mr. harrison. i'm here to speak on behalf of my brothers children who cannot right now speak for themselves. once again, my brother charles harrison was murdered january 2011 of this year. his murderer is still unsolved.

we have not been contacted in the last month as to an update to where the case is, so if somebody can get in contact with us to let us know, i just wanted to say that you notice the streets of san francisco are not safe as long as a man can open fire and gun somebody down, not in broad daylight at night but on video and the incident is caught on video. so we are planning businesses in san francisco. we're planning boating events in san francisco, but the people who were asking to come to san francisco and patronize san francisco are not safe, as long as you have people that will brazenly gun down people and take their lives. so i'm not going to be long. i just wanted to come and just keep, you know, this out there that the person that murdered

my brother is still out there and i just need an update to know where we're at, what are we doing? is the case cold? what's happening? so that's basically what i wanted to say. thank you for allowing me to come before you. >> mr. harrison, i think the chief has something for you. thank you, sir. next speaker. >> good evening, commission. commissioners. my name is doherty peterson and i need some information. over two years ago there was a murder in our development. i'm one of the early risers, 5:30, had a cup of coffee about 6:00, saw the usual people going to work, about a couple hours later, i heard what i thought was firecrackers, didn't think anything of it until i heard all the drama, sirens, etc., etc., on my street. that's when i looked out the

window. it was under control, went back to doing my dishes and cleaning my house. about three days later, inspectors knocked on the door. of course, the first thing i asked was where did you get my name and address? they said the owners of the complex gave us your name and address and everybody's name and address. it's on, you know. a sheet of paper, standard operating procedure. i said ok. come on in. i don't have anything to hide. i didn't see anything. told them point-blank i did not see anything, just what i communicated to you, i communicated to them. so to my surprise, yesterday i got a phone call saying they were going to give my name to the defense as a witness. and i'm saying wait a minute. how are you going to give my name to the defense. i told you, i did not see anything. i don't know anything. in addition to that, the young man who was murdered told

anybody and everybody who was in earshot, including the police, e.m.t., and from what i understand, people in the hospital who killed him. in addition to that, the other young man that was shot told the police and everybody who shot not only him but the other man. i live in hunter's point. i'm 70 years old. there's obviously some drama going on between your foot soldiers and desk soldiers because when i got the call, the first thing the inspector says is i'm so sorry, i tried to tell them you don't know anything but they are going to give your name anyway to the defense. of course i called your assistant d.a.'s, first thing out of their mouth, do you want to be in witness protection program? well,du