the mission station to the podium please (clapping.) captain prayer will read the citations for the officers (clapping). >> good evening on sunday april 7, 2013, at approximately 2:00 a.m. two concerned citizens approach appendicitis officer in the parking lot of the station they told officer berry natural they saw 8 to 10 anyone amino in a alteration they also told the officer they saw one of the indoctrinates pop back the slide of a semiautomatic they broadcasted the scene and the

officers ryan drauth semi ryan dwaeth ways inside the officer station with valerie deferring cindy heard the officers broadcasted the officers being aware of recent gang violence ran towards the scene of the consultation officers dwauth and deferring kin crossed the street and saw a group of men in a heated alteration they heard a bystander yell he's got a gun that heightened the officers sense of awareness and flrtsz tension of the situation by now both officer dwauth and deferring sin thinking holder their guns as the officers got close to the limousine they saw

an anger intublt waving a firearm at the opposing group both officers edge they were about to witness a shooting at this time the officers had a decision to make they could seek cover by one of the nearby placards cars or choose to contestant the subtract both officers released if at the didn't act quickly a shooting or possible murder would happen to gain a position to allow them to engage the suspect while limiting civilian causalities this position through safer for the public didn't provide cover for the officers at this point the if he

enarranged intublt gab to jam the point of gun against a victim forehead the officers were within 10 or 15 foot of the 13wuk9 they ordered the subtract to drop the gun the suspect turned the gun towards the officers dwauth struck the suspect with a bullet they responded to the call and were k34r079d with the subtract who violating waved the gun 80 instead of seeking cover behind parked cars they advanced in a manner to limit public causalities if forced to discharge their weapons or fired upon the action of dwauth and deferring kin serve as an example of the highest standards

of police officers they're each awarded the silver medal of valor. (clapping.) can i call captain william to

the podium please from the commanding officer of rhe southern station captain will read the citation for the captain sergeant walter wear and officer barns and another officer (clapping) good evening on july 12, 2013, captain lieutenant dave and walter wear and officer chris and officer cody barns respond to a 9-1-1 call at shots fired captain over zero with the captains were one block away

from the call when they heard shots fired lieutenant and captain and sergeant wear started their response immediately with minimal information due to them being so close to the scene captain over endear driving took 0 slow and he misdemeanoral approach didn't know in the shooting was inside or outside as they approached the scene initially didn't see anything out of the ordinarily all of a sudden sergeant wear observed a sergeant as bearing berry white walked out on the loading zone sergeant wear observed blood on the front of whites closing he immediately yelled to the other officers stop the car i have a guy with blood captain over zero

stopped the vehicle they exited the vehicle to immediately make be contact with the victim they made contact with white as captain over zero took a cover position they starred to ask white general questions and received no response from white white studio in front of the officer staring and not answering questions sergeant wear asked white if he was hit and he relied yeah. captain over endear and captain wear and the sergeant did an investigation and saw white was a treat they immediately drew their weapon and told white to get on the ground the suspect

benefited his knee to the ground and then stood up and need to the mexican restaurant on 888 brandon lieutenant johnson and lieutenant wear pursued white as johnson and lieutenant wear pursued white they reached the did your and observed white standing in a position with a gun pointed out towards them lieutenant johnson and wear took cover to the left of the restaurant saerthd wear attempted to alert captain over zero that white was in the restaurant with a gun but captain over zero explicit hear him the captain preceded to run into the restaurant but when we reached the front door he say white holding a gun and in a shooting position white fired

his gun attempting to kill captain over zero captain over zero saw the consumers in his line of fire he was unable to gave me the suspect into a fight captain over zero broadcasted over the radio that he was fired on as he was putting out alleged information he observed two mr. makras driving towards the location the first car was driven by ron and the second chris costa and his partner officer cody barns as the saerthd arrived open seen captain over zero saw the intukts arm extend with a gun in his hand captain over zero

attempted to say that 0 white was lying in wait but captain over zero and the officers saw white fire his gun at sergeant berry at that attempting to kill him the suspect a shooting shot at la berry and drove past the location and exited his vehicle and took cover the officers barns were driving behind and when they saw white fire his firearm officer costa mesa at that and barns engaged white and white fired his weapon upon them twice and officer costa mesa at that and barns were not able to fire because of the bystanders they took positions of cover and

engaged white when they observed him walking away from the street with his hands up officer costa mesa at that and barns continued to have their gun sites on him and white laid on his stomach and the officers took white into custody the firearm was on the curb in front of him further investigation prior to trying to kill the cops officer costa mesa at that and barns white had gone into the jewelry store on brandon street and killed two people and wounded others whites car was on 88 brandon street with a loaded ak 47 all those quick responds

kept white from getting to his firearms the quick response and action and bravery of lieutenant johnson and sergeant wear and the other luptdz and officers prevented white from killing anyone for their action they've receive the silver medal of valor (clapping).

>> lieutenant johnson has since retired and way unable to be with us hopefully, we'll adequate him his award and enjoy retirement and not be shot on can i have deputy denise come to

the podium so this is a large group so the first names i'll call i want you to come up and stand on the top of the stair officer e labor boca and john glen officer michael keen officer steven caring win officer jeffrey brown officer john rocking win santa jay officer robert tummy and officer robert plume and officer robert johnson and deputy smith is going to read the entire scenario those officers will get their awards first and the next round of officers i'll call if you could stand on the lower level

sergeant airbnb bear are a sergeant he dense missouri honey and officer james cunningham and officer directing lee and officer anton adequate val we will and believe me i've been practicing this one lieutenant. >> (clapping.) there it is on saturday july 6, 2013, as

approximately 1125 hours they were on final approach to san francisco international airport the aircraft was a bowing 27 it was a calm and sunny saturday morning of a holiday weekend and no indication of problems all of a sudden and without warning the aircraft crashed into the seawall at the end of the run away 28 left it served the tail of the plan the plane be banged up ward and did a 3 hundred and 60 degree spin and slammed into the ground and caught on fire the officer witnessed that crash he called a code 33 and notified dispatch a twoip 37 had crashed

officer cunningham was in the north end officer cunningham witnessed the crash and immediately drove towards the down plane realizing a number of people in in addition of critical care the officer spotted the crew and come deterred them to the crash site the san francisco lovers raised to the crash site they were the first emergency personnel to arrive to the heavy i didn't damaged plane lieutenant sergeant airbnb pear are a and dennis o ma honey and officer james cunningham and officer you stewart mueller and derrick lee, officer angelina

plume and val we will and officer affordable unit debris joseph and john glen and officer michael keen and officer steven cowen and officer jeff brown and ron and officer sanjay and robert thank you for the opportunity i didn't and officer johnson and officer donald macintire were on the site they never expected to see the rear of the arrangement was crushed and the engine was smashed it was hard to escape the left engine was torn from the wing allowing jet fuel to saturate the dry grass the oil lines are ruptured kaugdz the airline to catch fire lieutenant sergeant pawar are a

and mahoney assessed the situation and knew the passengers and crew were not likely to get out those that did were westward they knew nothing about quick coordinate action with relative in the death of people they recognized the aircraft so explode with the fuel on the left side made kaukt contact with the fuel that was rising if this happened the exploration and fire would cause death for the passengers and crew and the officers they pledged ta a plan to get the victims away from the danger and rescued and evacuated the crew and passengers officer derrick

and pluming had respond by riding in badge carts immediately began to coral the passengers their immediate and clear direction saved countless lives with the injured and have terrified passengers were running in all directions running across runaways officers cunningham and lee invited it the inflatable one failed to open and was blocking the exits the fight tenants were yelling and it was trapping phasing e passengers in the seats the police officers purchased the inflatable things and the officers cunningham and

lee through their knives to purchase the tubs at the end of the rear the it blocked with debris officer cunningham and others who were dressed that their uniforms no breathing apparatus and no tools both of them entered the burning plane they encountered tick thick black smoke the inside of the cabin rows of seats were twisted a in several directions and the passengers were trapped in their seats the overhead badge compartments had fallen under the passengers pinning them and many of the passengers were in shock and so badly

injured unable to evacuate officer began urging physical force to help and handed the debris to other officers and they threw it away interest the plane they helped the passengers to be evacuated the officers gave the evacuation instructions to you'll and the officers handed the passengers too on the outside during this rescue effort the officers entered and existed the aircraft more than a dozen times the number of persons injured was so great it would have taken a lot of time to evacuate the officers on the field began to admissible the are injuries and transported them into the back of pickup

truck when those officers wrapped their arms around the passengers body to prevent other injuries to the transitional area san francisco fire department units assigned to the forest liquor store had no warning they were on the sequence in approximately 3 minutes and began fire suppression in full gear due to the severity of the incident they brought in the san mateo and san francisco fire departments after rescuing numerous passengers and crew members the officers were alerted by itself members of the fire department that several passengers were uncounted for although they were certain they have evacuated all the passengers they ran back into

the plane and began to search the architecture was still on fire making it impossible to see those officers continued to search the aircraft nightmare relieved bayshore obeying by the members of the fire department wearing apparatus it was end it was determined the sf members every passenger had been evacuated one hundred and 82 were transported to local hospitals and after is situation stabilize officer cunningham had to be treated for smoke inhalation each the members immediately robbed to the crash site and responded within 2 to 5 minutes and entered the crash site and located themselves ousted u outside of the aircraft a severely damaged vehicle on

fire risking great explosion and death for all those during the vex two individuals with expertise in identification were interviewed regarding this risk one was the pilot and identification expert and an identification expert on identification crashes the aircraft still had enough fuel to possibly cause the aircraft to flowed the fuels was extremely hazardous and not only will it ignite with fire but imposed to air it commensurate's into a myth that can ignite because the crash scenes in fact the identification guidelines

say the passengers should be rescued within 90 seconds the officers were there well within the 90 seconds actions of the members of the san francisco aab/building inspection commission were successful in helping the aircraft those members were dribble involved in the successful rescue of 3 hundred and 4 passengers from the aircraft without a moment's notice they are immediately went into action individuals stories of heroic abound in the officers but this was a team that came together at the exact place and time to save lives each of those brave officers could have directed people to stand back from the plane but they made the decision to preach approach the aircraft

that could explode but rescued passengers in doing this the officers were successful in saving the lives of 3 hundred and four people those members are awarded medal of valthmeda

(clapping.) the officers seated received silver medal of valor those 8 officers will receive gold.

>> (clapping) (laughter) (clapping). >> perhaps a standing ovation