>> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco police commission occurring may , 7, 2014, will begin shortly. >>

>> mr. president, i would like to call the roll. >> please do. >> president mazzucco?

>> present. >> vice president tur man? >> here. >> commissioner marshal? >> he is right outside. >> en route. >> and commissioner dejesus. >> present. >> commissioner loftus. >> here. >> xh commissioner wang? >> here. >> mr. president, you have a quorum and also with us tonight is the chief of police, gregory suhr. >> and thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, may 7th, san francisco police commission meeting, and ladies and gentlemen, we have a very full agenda this evening, with several items including consent calendar and matters we have to deal with at the end of the calendar in closed session and family members here regarding some incidents here in the city, without further adieu, before i start that i should welcome tonight, our newest commissioner, and ask him to stay a few words, victor wong is our newest commissioner and he brings a wealth of

experience with reference to criminal justice and social justice, and commissioner wong who lives here in san francisco with his wife and children, started his career early on as a lawyer and assistant public defender in los angeles county where he served for four years and from there he moved on and worked as a civil rights attorney with the asian law caucus here in san francisco and with another civil rights organization, the apsxi, from there, he moved to the san francisco district attorney office where for seven years he served as a prosecutor and so he is kind of a combination of myself, commissioner loftus and turman and dejesus was a former public defender and a balanced background with significant experience with civil rights in the community and we honored to have commissioner wong join the commission and if you could say a few words about yourself. >> thank you very much, i think that you have pretty much covered my history and i am excited to join this commission

and is seems like it is a hard working body, in the first week, i have read over the materials, i have began meeting with community groups and that is who i really hope to represent on this commission, are the voices from the community and so i did spend the day today meeting with the tenant association and a meeting coming up tomorrow with the central utah sro to discuss their concerns and also i spent's part of yes and today and meeting with the family of mr. stephan germ o who was killed this weekend and family is here and i look forward to working with everyone on this commission and hope that you will represent the voices of community. >> okay. dr. marshall? >> welcome, victor, i had the pleasure of working with him at the district attorney office and i know you to be a very ethical, fair committed person, and so i think that this body

will benefit from your years of service and your sense integrity and fairness for everyone and so i am excited to work with you again. >> commissioner dejesus? >> i have to say that i did attend the rules committee where commissioner chan and commissioner wang went in front of the rules committee as stated in the charter and i understand that a decision by the rules committee, the three members there including the chair voted for a commissioner chan and put her name forward to the board which is the way that the charter was set up, and the way that they have it has worked in the past. and i understand i was disturbed at what was going on at the rules committee and what i was there and i was present and a lot of the discussion was, having a particular commissioner for a particular community and that is not what the charter was set up to do and it was set up to have

representation for the entire city and not for a singled out community, and i understand from the board of supervisors unprecedented move in terms of challenging commissioner chan on the floor, and going in the back room and getting 7 votes and not allowing the speakers to speak at that meeting and i am doing what the rules committee was chartered to do. and so i am disturbed by the whole process and i was disturbed by the comments and i have to say, that it was just a very disturbing process and i think that the commissions here need to understand that we represent all of san francisco and we don't represent a particular segment and i also

commissioner kingly has not resigned and she is working in a judicial race and she is no longer on the commission and we will do that when things settle down and i would like to commissioner chan for her four years on the commission and instrumental in the crisis training for the officers and language access were two of the larger projects that she worked on and so on behalf of the commission i want to thank her for her hard work and diligence on those projects. anything further? >> okay, call item number 1, the consent calendar. >> receive and file, action, sfpd/occ document protocol quarterly report, first quarter 2014. a request for approval to accept gifts of najeon chilgi, boxes from asiana airlines to 56 individual members of the san francisco police airport bureau, to commemorate asiana airline sincere appreciation for the support and kindnes shown throughout the flight, 214

incident, valued at approximately $20 eachrequest for approval to accept donation of a laptop computer from the "hardly strictly bluegrass" organization for use by the richmond station, valued at $1907.48 . >> you have these in your packet and let's start at one item at a time and with reference to the occ document protocol and quarter report, are there any questions or concerns regarding that? >> okay, hearing none, we have cleared that item. and we will do a vote on all of the items once we go next one, is there a presenter from the police department, regarding the gift from asiana airlines? commissioners in your packet there is a memorandum from deputy chief smith from the san francisco airport, and the airlines would like to give a commemorative box to the 59 members of the san francisco police department who responded

to that horrific accident at the international airport back in july and the gift of gratitude for the officers who put their lives on-line and many of them actually ran on to the aircraft and taking people off of the aircraft even before the firefighters would be able to start their efforts to put out the fire and so we have heroic officers and a lot of officers and actually psa, s and civilians who help to bring the people off of the aircraft and make sure that there was a smooth transition and so it is a gift of gratitude and it is on the consent calendar so we have to approve this and are there any questions? loftus? >> no. commissioner turman? >> just to be clear, i think that the approximately value of each box is $20. >> that is correct. cumulatively, it is more than $50. >> and the gift is a traditional sign of respect and acknowledged as friendship. >> yes. >> and then, the next matter on

the calendar please read that one again?request for approval to accept donation of a laptop computer from the "hardly strictly bluegrass" organization for use by the richmond station, valued at $1907.48 . >> there is also a memo in your packet regarding that as you are well aware, the parley strictly blue grass festival is held in golden gate part and the richmond police station, i see the captain here this evening and they probably directly are responsible for making sure that event goes off without any glitches and there is a requested donation of this lap top for the police station to use given all of the time that effort they put into this, anything else that you would like to add captain? >> commissioners any questions regarding that? >> i would like to think that we can buy our own lap tops but this is a good one for the purpose of a large scale, event. >> it is used in the mobile

command and facilitates hardly strictly blue grass. >> it looks like a good one. >> is there any public comment, regarding these matters on the calendar? >> hearing none, public comment is closed. >> motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> please call line item number two. >> general public comment, the public is now welcome to address the commission, and regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and the speaker will address the remarks of the really is re.

>> i am the first cousin once removed as i said, and someone new to my story expressed condolence and asked me if i had leads, and i said they had a man arrested and they were holding him and they let him go. and we were outraged as family members and community members and as friends, as loved ones, about this development. and outraged and distressed. and we had some questions. we got a few officers, but up until a meeting that we had with the chief, prior to the meeting, we had a lot of questions. some have been answered, but here is a question, that must

be answered even after the case and that is how many more need to die in san francisco to get, and not go back to the apartment because they are scared for their lives. because this man is there. he is still armed because you have no reason to take away his weapon because he is at home, how many more people have to die? does the family have to be scared? that they can go home and this man who killed their brother their loved one is still there? this is the ridiculousness of

this situation. i am off my notes now because i heard the answers from the chief, i was surprised yesterday, when this man was released. pending further investigation, my one question today was, what do you need, what more do you need? you are waiting for something to drop out of the sky? what are you going to find out? don't you have enough to charge him? if you have enough to charge him, why don't you have enough to hold him and the chief told me, matter of factly that they felt confident that they had what they needed and they went to the da and the da said go back. the chief said, that they were going to recanvas and ask more questions and the chief says that they can do all that they can but he thought that they had what it took to make this case. but he said probably, he said i said what are the chances of this guys being tried and there is no statute of limitations but it is slim but it has happened before. i don't know if that is good

enough, chief. my family can't go back to their homes. they have lived there on mission street for 18 years, for goodness sakes, here is a man who was held for how many days? 48 hours? and he goes back armed, and he goes back with a history, maybe not a criminal record, but a history of killing my loved one. and that is not a safe situation, in the circumstances of san francisco. >> thank you, i appreciate the time. my relative who is in that building, and... >> sir, your time is up. >> thank you very much. >> i appreciate the time. >> miss brown? >> do you want the overhead? >> yes. >> hi, my name is paula brown

and i am here concerning my son who was murdered august 14, 2006, i am still fighting for justice for my son. mother's day is coming and i am hurting. no mother should have to go through this. no mother should have to deal with this situation. my son would be 24 years old now. he was murdered when he was 17 years old. a baby. my time has stopped. i still live as him being 17 years old. my children have passed his age. i didn't think of that. but my children have passed his

age now. my children are out living him. i bring these names, these are the names of the men that shot my son, 30 times with an semiautomatic gun. thomas hannible is still walking the street, moffet the ring lead certify is in jail but not convicted of my son's murder, and all of these men except for one of them was murdered also. but the rest of them are walking the streets to kill again. how long do we deal with this? i bring my pictures down here because i want people to see what i have to deal with. this is me standing over my son

at the funeral. and not thinking about nothing. his lifeless body. this is my son after an autopsy. he was shot, they opened him up from head to toe. and this is what i am left with. mother's day is coming. and i will be down here again i know on mother's day i will be down in front of city hall, with my son's pictures. and i know here i come and here i might shed tears but it is okay this is my therapy. i need to do this. i need justice for my child and those men are still walking the street. i don't hate them. but i'm not letting them get away with what they have done. i don't hate them.

they shot my son for no reason because he hollared out and said run, all that he said was run because they were going to shoot somebody else. and i need justice, that is it. >> thank you, mrs. brown, you can come here every wednesday night. >> next speaker. >> i think that the young lady wants to speak here. >> please come forward. thanks, clyde. thank you. >> do you need the projector? >> okay. >> first off i want to thank you guys for giving me this opportunity to speak about my brother i'm the younger sister of stephan geramo, he consider him my brother and my second dad since my dad passed awai, he took the responsibility of

taking care of my brothers myself and especially my mom financially and emotionally. and i know without him he would not have made it through and my brother was a responsible kind hearted and funny and humble man, but one night, steven got shot by a man who is now released out in the streets armed while my brother is dead. and i know whatever you do will not bring my brother's life back, but that will not stop me and all of my families and his friends of getting justice. and my family has been living there in the building for 18 years. and now, we can't even sleep at night, feeling safe because that man is back in his home armed and he is living there with no consequences. and how is it okay, to let the man go with no consequences while my brother is dead? and we can't do anything about it? and if can happen once it kill

happen again. please help us, this is not okay, we need justice, thank you. >> clyde? >> sure. >> i want to keep up with everything, but this one caught me by surprise. i didn't know that there was all of the interal politics on the police commission, i remember dr. marshall getting ousted and i had to go and fight with you to get you back on, do you remember that? we want you. and the politics are still alive and well. let's talk about some good things again. my heart goes out to you. there is a lot of it, and i keep up with new york as well, and real horror stories in new york involving police, that being said, some good things going on. southern station, they are clean, and i want to thank

supervisor jane kim, and the chief and mayor lee for getting that substation and that was a great investment. that captain over there, i was walking around and i was talking to the cops and i heard the voice on the radio and i said that is his captain and he is on the street making an arrest and so i think that we are really heading on the right direction. and the murder rate is great. and the command and got his pants pulled up and the issues and i don't know if there is a solution to that, i know what new york did, the mayor demanded the cab companies put a device in the car ta slows them down. and slows them down and so it is a device and i don't know we should do that and i don't know how many cabs, and one cab to a young girl and that is a big problem right now and homicide rate, and academy classes are

running, correct? and i got it sheriff, and yeah, we got one clyde, the same thing in oakland, oakland is looking good, homicide rate is down. and got a great chief over there he is active but he should be permanent and he is great and i talked to a friend of his. he is a good guy. and i put that is the problem that needed some clean up. and all things that are really looking good. and i walk around all of the time and i was in new york for two weeks and you don't want to know what is going on in new york, and you are the one chief, and make sure that they are small. and they got more officers, and one police plaza than this department has. and great job, sir, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker? >> good afternoon, good evening.

my name maria and i come before you from as justice for alex, and love for alex neato and i am one of the committee members that we have formed since his murder by sfpd and i just have a few things to show you guys. some of the members and volunteers for the committee have received the occ complaints. and the reports, and i would like to show you, the lack thereof. that the reports are not being completely filled out. and if you look at the bottom of it, it just says conduct reflecting this credit, and nowhere, there, for the reports from occ. and on our, is and is it being mentioned that the police used too much force in one of the reports. and in another one, this is my own personal complaint, and it just says that i was compin