resdrithing. >> chief and community i'm ruth the director of education in san francisco opera and the district and i just like a little bit of clarification with the expansion of the district the northern district should be larger you mentioned it will be possible to have as many as one hundred and 50 officers assigned to this area i'm curious about expanding the region what could be really be looking at in terms of it seems like the community we're looking for more attention we need help thank you. >> i'm informed that it is a sector added it adds 24 offends but your concern is needed and if anything specific everyone

can e-mail us a letter if there's other will specific things after you think that it so keep in mind. >> welcome. >> hello i'm larry edmond jews a activist rights i've been here 25 years and i live in the t l where last week tweaks you learned i want to say the g l we don't african-american people when i call the people on someone white it doesn't register it is a shame bus it is going around the city 53 we have just as much danger on 21st someone set a fire in my room the night i was on the km e l on

the 21st you know the people on t n g c run two other departments month fire departments and things like that we're not respected not safety limited to you all i find that everything that can happen in the g l is a system the police knows market street and coming here i was looking at a black man in the police station and black shorts and in the t l i know we not safe in the t l in the hotels we have no one to turn to you know that's the only time they're to see you what this black lady said those brown mothers and the bridge was named after he guaranteed we had

consensual acts the president has guaranteed the lgbtq but still last night 2 hundred black transgenders want 80 respect to city hall and they lead the categories in black lgbtq in this city they took over the board of supervisors at 4:30 and had a two hour meeting it is important that we know that in all phases. >> sir. >> we're not represented and i've joined those people saying it is got to stop we need a better life. >> sir sorry your time is up. >> thank you juicy. >> i want to add as we roles realize the priority is not done concerning the homicides of the african-american race. >> ma'am ma'am i have one question who do we

talk to in regards of getting lists of the investigators and humane kaiser cases are solved and how many cases are not solved. >> next speaker >> welcome. >> i want to explain there's a process after and the chief and captain will answer as many questions as possible. >> good afternoon to all who are here especially our fine commissioners and i beg your dlunlz to allow me to share my perception of what i think happened with police officers having seen and stated to the cases that have bin most recently betrayed like michael brown and eric conner in new

york i believe that when police officers encounter muscular obviously physically strong and a in statute black man that fear clouds their judgment and they resort to the best weapon that they have to make sure that they claim the victory and in contemptuous situation i'm a member of the third baptist church thank you for allowing me to share (clapping.) thank you very much. >> my further public comment this evening. >> hearing no. you further public comment any public

comment on this item? is to commissioner marshalls prospective if the chief has things to respond to and certainly my fellow commissioners as well. >> so dr. >> dr. brown i assure i we have a responsible letter we'll get it to the close of business you brought up a class i appreciate it i don't even know as chief we had a post funding class on racial profiling that went away and that class was reinstated last month so that class is going on with cliff arrested williams i realize there is public input. >> we gave me. >> no, no i wanted to get it up again and want to tell you there

are other things afoot sergeant williams said we have approximately 2 hundred african-american police officers versus having nor prior that's true we're detain nine hundred officers of all raze i'm committed to having the police officers in san francisco we'll try to hire back the number of the officers that were lost the sergeant brought in the late 70s and 80s we had the officers we were under american people affirmative action and we need to replicate those numbers again, that's what i want to try to do within the law of the land again a lot of things be brought up and the community is hugely important to be part find our training and reverend townsend brought a great point that

different community we have 10 stationed and the community within the stations all the people need to look like the people they work with doesn't have to be absolute but revocations i'm sure you'll get our responses we'll continue to work with the community. >> will it be in writing. >> it will be in writing and you'll have it in writing we're on television. >> thank you, chief. >> thank you, chief >> on the note on the hiring please give you can't hire officers nails they apply so, please recommend people we've got to put them in the pipeline and get them to the academy the

greater chance we have young men and particularly young african-americans on the force we're going to have to work to change attitudes about the police and recommend the staff you've got to get people into the pipeline or they've not be in the force. >> i called you investigator marshall commissioner marshall. >> i'll say that to respond to reverend brown i appreciate the time we got 11 folks and people asked a clear request for improvement not african-american community different training around racial profiling specifically highlighting what that department was unaware of and within 5 days the people representing you're coming to

meet with myself and colleagues this was run state at the academy that's a start and more response and community participation specific to the african-american community those 3 things were communicated clearly through reverend brown and he'll be getting a letter by tomorrow to talk about what some of the initiative are going to be and how we can work together moving forward unequally is a commitment of the commission and myself we continue to diverse, if any, the public department and it looks like san francisco but specifically within the african-american community we continue to recruit we needed everyone's help? each one reaching out i'll give everyone my personal e-mail and if you

know someone please suzy hot mail.org i'm not the only one a number of my colleagues also share the commitment i'll ask for help and identifying the right folks and helping them going get through the piping to say law enforcement does better and public safety is improved when we have a difference police department and work together that's what i believe colleagues? do you want to add anything >> can i get our i'm one of the only people that have a hot mail suzy loftus at hot mail.org l o f t u s help us anti folks.

>> commissioner president fong. >> i'm not seen the report it is great to see folks have done this a lot longer than i have i'll look at the report i recognize your frustration you're dealing with a commission that is from him to our concerns at this point, i can be meet with the faith community and we have a commitment on the commission but certainly we have a personal commitment we're committed to the issues that we need training and policing and increasing our diverse recruitment we want to partner and work with you so all the years i understand your frustration but whatever we can do to increase the concerns

we're there with you. >> sir request for the fbi come in and help (inaudible) will help that's our concern and the investors. >> ma'am could you - >> direct our questions afterward you can direct our questions afterward. >> as far as you can explain why the jurisdictions for the things not not fbi that will satisfy he can explain all of that after the meeting. >> my further commit from my any of my colleagues. >> line item 3 adjournment. >> colleagues a motion. >> second. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? motion passes we're adjourned

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>> all right. is this cyc?

make some noise. cyc. [speaking foreign language] is cyc here? yeah. community love right here. [speaking foreign language] hey good job, good job. smile, smile. it's not that heavy. you make cyc proud, the community. oh yes. all right. i don't know if they're going to fit on stage. you know i wish your captain were here. oh there he is. captain. one of my old favorites. commander is

here too. [speaking foreign language] >> okay. i think the mayor so sisters and brothers san franciscans the mayor ed lee. [speaking foreign language] >> what a presentation from our golden dragon and all of our wonderful young people. i want to have a special welcome to our valley christian and our students from beijing. yeah, they came all the way over here to celebrate this wonderful event and gosh this is all about family. it's all about extended family. i want to welcome everyone here to the year of the

ram celebrations. this is a kickoff. we're kicking it off. we're cleaning our area. i want to thank julie christensen for being here and supervisor mar for being here and dpw and muhammad is here and our police department our fire department, all of the agencies working together with our community based agencies to celebrate. keep everyone safe and enjoyable. we're going to hear a lot of fire crackers and you heard norman already and he is warming up and a big parade and just the warm up today but we're excited with this community flower fair. i want to give a great thank you to our chinese chamber of commerce for having been here from the very start. all of their wonderful leadership. eddy is here, rose

is here. the entire chamber has been doing this for many decades and we have been growing it for the world to see. i am very proud that this parade is put on by so many volunteers. i want to thank all of the sponsors but most importantly all of you here and enjoy yourself. buy flowers. norman said earlier to tell each other you're beautiful. that's the first time i heard that from anita. i have been telling her that for 35 years but the reverse hasn't happened but anyway this is a great time to celebrate. i want to say thank you for so many of our community partners that put this on that really think about and are creative and are dedicated to building this chinatown community so we're proud to display our culture for the rest of the world to see. thank you for being here.

[speaking foreign language] [applause] >> just to let all of the dignitaries know we're keeping it short this year and keep of the blessing and that's it and of course we have to thank the chinatown chamber of commerce and eddy and you can speak longer. >> for all of you let me say something in chinese. [speaking foreign language]

[applause] >> all right. so supervisors real quick and you have to say the chinese except for supervisor eric mar who has a prepare speech. >> right. happy year of the ram. happy valentines day as well. to all of the children there is a lot of kissing that goes on today but i have a lot

of love for chinatown and all of the volunteers serving the community and the people. thanks to the sponsors as well. [speaking foreign language] thank you. >> all right. other supervisors all you get to say is a chinese new year blessing. we will start over here. >> you want to go? >> no, go ahead. >> hi everyone. i am scott wiener from the board of supervisors and here to wish you a happy new year and thank you to everyone that made this happen and have a great one. thank you. >> this is julie christensen the supervisor for the district. congratulations. all of you picked the best place to be today. it's a beautiful day so happy new year. happy valentines day. have a good day in chinatown and thank you to the chamber and to ed and rose for putting on a party and inviting all of us to be here. thank you norman. [speaking foreign language] >> any other supervisors?

that's it? okay. are we ready? >> [speaking foreign language] (speaking chinese). i i am here to represent the recorder assessor carmen chu and happy new year and celebrate with your valentines too. thank you very much. >> real quick captain can you say chinese new year? >> [speaking foreign language] happy new year. happy valentines day on behalf of every police officer that has the best job in the world patrolling chinatown and thank you very much. >> we have to go to rose and get ready. >>

[speaking foreign language] so what i said is wishing everybody a prosperous new year. however, safety is number one and second is cleanliness so i have a cane. if i see anybody throwing garbage around i will wack you. thank you. [applause] >> i got enough scissors this year. okay. let me tell you what is going on. they're going to cut the ribbon and then the beijing and valley christian will be ready. after they cut the ribbon i will go "one, two, three" and you're in for a real treat. [speaking foreign language]

. all right. you guys all help me. ready? [speaking foreign language] >> one, two, three! all right. hit it. check this out everybody. turn around. check this out. all the way from beijing and valley christian school together. ready? all right. >> [speaking foreign language] valley christian school -- [speaking foreign language] >> can you feel it everybody? ready? (band playing)