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sioners terminate those officers on recommendation of chief greg suhr and do it now. >> thank you clyde. >> next speaker. >> (clapping.) madam president commissioners, chief suhr and distinguished audience i'm sid restrict jackson the president of the san francisco black leadership forum and come to you with a request for hope we live in a racist society not shocking to three and four there are racist incidents within our society that is awe pulling and shocking we don't have effective policies to deal with this to sit up and deny there is no racism in our society is essentially taking the problem we need psych overlook
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intervention so we can eradicate those types of idea and behavior that has a terrible impact on the black community when someone does something associating they think what they're doing is justified that's the problem unless you understand that to not be racist is a conscious decision something to be mindful all the time you're going to react to that unconscious stimulus i'm asking for i think i have good faith in the leadership on this board we can look at very, very pragmatic and effective policies best practices throughout the country how we eradicate radios it
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behavior on our police force (clapping). >> next speaker >> good evening. >> madam president and board members i'm a community activist vice chair to san francisco integrate council and baptist church i'm here to say today, this has got to stop we need you to be like an investigator with a two-way mirror one mirror to see what happens in the department and in the community and neither one is talking to each other the time has come to stop those officers there should be no decision she should go we want them not to go with benefits we want them do go without a job and those recommended basis to make sure they're not hired by the oakland's or the fairfield's
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police department they shouldn't work as police officers this is a city of loving people and sfns we're out here to do a job and every individual whether the traffic cop or the police cop or the chief of police all to be accountability any deception we want it to stop now we know there are good officers out there and good people but every individual that sitting on the where had is accountable if you leave tonight without having those police officers than something is wrong with the board (clapping.) thank you, mr. hodge. >> next speaker. >> hello my name is aj the
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president of the incorporated san francisco and the president of the seal of the african-american.org i'm here with my mom who saw fit to come in a wheelchair and here to support of the third baptist church osmosis brown and standing up for what is right the question how many white people have you seen impended down in this matter and how many white kids have stopped and they get shot what you come is to the same conclusion something is one thing wrong you have the power to set the example the light tap on the wrist watch is not going to work i'm asking the black community and you to do your job number one and set the example i'm asking the black community
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to build a minority center in ferguson and other places they shoolt down a black person and i want to say say it loud i'm black and proud say it allowed i'm black and i'm proud say it a loud i'm black and i'm proud thank you. >> thank you (clapping). >> next speaker >> welcome. >> how are you i'm william i'm a third san franciscan my family fought in every war including charging a gentleman back to mexico i'm not here to cast stones but one thing i'm going to explain i see my time monitor is running out in a quick partially in alaska or the at
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risk if a hunter wants to catch a wolf it will take a knife and stick it in ice right there and the wolf can smell blood over two miles away that wolf will come to the achieve and continuing lick the achieve but ultimately it's killing itself in this partially you and i radio both the wolf and the hunter because we're both putting the knife there and licking the knife now the african-americans that are emigrated to san francisco and the west coast if you don't believe that african-americans have granted something in this country everyday you walk up i own a laundry and dry cleaners everyday you wake up and put our
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cloths into the washing machine you royals your an african-american you put that was an african-american every time you stop at the stoplight that is a african-american every time this system and not specifically you is not doing their job realize that this is the fertility you're taking from your culture thank you (clapping.) >> next speaker welcome. >> good evening ladies and gentlemen, my name is it charley powell i'm the social director of the fold berry group i do research for the organization i'm not here to technically to address you people by my people my black family i want you to love our
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black people like the brother he mad because he don't have some i'm the original man, i taught you everything you know and taught. >> chemistry and everything you know okay. you didn't know how to make a hoop now you want to treat me and depict me, i'm the greatest thing that walked this earth this man b will protect you from the sunny say to you one time no sir we are the original inherenters he was born of us okay. and we cast him out he hate you he know it is he going
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to kill you this is a suicide room all over the world i mean, i'm not trying to tell me this man is going to kill you genocide on black people and asia or russian if you're black you're going to die. >> thank you, mr. powell (clapping). >> next speaker welcome. >> good evening commissioner president loftus and commissioners audience you know all those years of coming to this commission and trying to somehow appeal to a higher thinking and higher cause it is unfortunate out of the 8 reports that are proposed to san francisco police department
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literally none has been implemented and we said all along this is like a pimp he will that never goes away we have to somehow be clear that i think a lot of times there are so many conflict of interest in san francisco a political city this is why we've been saying the department of justice needs to step in (clapping) it didn't please us to compare us to oakland or ferguson the other departments a lot of things that happens with homicide wouldn't you been e it make sense to have an impartial investigation and then whatever come down from the department of justice now we can deal with that then but now so many relationships have been accommodated in the city we can't get to first base
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even on the simplest things that's innovate right. i received a letter from the department of justice a record request at the san francisco black and brown alliance for the points that have been submitted to the department of justice on behalf of people of san francisco we're having an appeal we don't agree with the department of justice this is confident with you we want you to write a letter help us help you what our city thank you (clapping.) thank you. >> next speaker. >> welcome. >> madam chair, commissioners i'm a senior pastor of the hope at 950 gilman in the hunters
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point neighborhood and a developer i serve with the tabernacle thought about 7 of the larger progressive churches in san francisco african-american churches and one of our objectives to try to retard or stop if possible the exhibition of african-americans all of us know that we have different ethnic groups in the city with the african-americans are the only group that is being pushed out of the city and not retaining and not growing with the developing i heard some disturbance statistics this week that we anywhere if two to four and a half percent i came here in 1946 almost 14 percent african-americans
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left the south as a soldier internal revenue in the last part of the military in europe when i came back from germany i was dismissed into arkansas i felt like i was walking into a burning objective because racism was so strong with the black only go to the back of house all those types of things i'm disturbed because i believe that 18 officers 0 so for maybe discovered maybe the numbers are larger or smaller i don't know 14, 14 have i couldn't believe i don't understand racism mime i i'm a sharecropper i know
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rapture on occasion it was a black brother walking down the street in a little town and the sheriff slapped him the woman don't hold her hand on the street i couldn't believe this type of attitude the chief was here in san francisco and cities in your hands to do a variety of ideas and restoration you can myth that improper form and justice i think you can do it. >> thank you thank you pastor walker. >> speaker welcome. >> i'm mr. king founding african-american board and the archbishop of the jurisdiction of the west
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i did not come here to speak i think words are falling only deaf ears i think this is already been expressed clearly enough for us to know that racism exists and is practiced explosive force demonstrates with the two police officers walking into the territory of sheriff's office suggest the intimately attitude of san francisco police department and i think it is something we need to be aware of now it was stated that the chief no one has come to the black community to express their concerns about the pain and the hurt in the community african-american intriegs board had a relationship with the police department that if there was an incident in the community they'll met with the chief
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within an hour of the incident and speak southerner how would be best to deal with it chief you're aware of this program and i think that that program needs to be re-established to have a where i imagine between the community and the community the peace plan was adapted by the hispanic and the filipino community as well i think we need to take a look at that and get something real besides us coming down and testifying and begging and pleading that the police in the united states of america began with slave chasing and protecting the wealth of the ruling class so let's be sincere and i have it by taking a look at at the document let's not talk about community police
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officers polish apples and psa them out in the community we've got to get real and stop disrespecting the officers of justice that represent 20 true blue policing to the serving of this community thank you archbishop king (clapping.) thank you. next speaker. welcome. >> i'm eli crawford the president of the new community license plate foundation and i'm also the president and the ceo of the incarcerated and the formally incarcerated i'm here to represent the black population and the black from the incarcerated side today, the population is sitting at 60 percent african-american
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in a city that is on between two and 4 percent. >> wow. >> you know we have a system that teaching and giving young men high school diplomas who can't even read fourth grade education i go into the jail everyday i do may feel speaking and life skills and detox prison men tablets things they don't do enough of i'm a professional i've spent over 40 years of my life in prison and giving back in order to keep what i've got i'm not getting the support and my community is not getting the support in order to strive are
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forward our young people are stuck in the fashion their stuck in today with remind me of 1965 in los angeles that reminds me of 1968 right here in san francisco we're getting ready to have something that can't be controlled because the gun by blacks don't do anything when you take a hundred out you've got one thousand coming in within the next hour. >> thank you. sir, your time is up. >> i want to thank you and thank the folks here for having me. >> thank you, mr. crawford>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> welcome. >> i'm trying to put this picture up i'm ward logging i
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think so a native of the san francisco and standing here on behalf of young men that are getting killed today, i want to tell you a little bit about the story all the young men that are shot are guilty of supervisor kim a crime i was sentenced sefrpt so for driving awhile being black as a youth i was pulled over and beaten several times and you wonder why we have crime and people are becoming police officers you wonder why we have more black american young people instead of turning around in a community at the time i was beaten i was an honorable student came up under the commissioner gary and former
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chief fred those were the people that brought me up i had a mentor movement to work in the jail i've been doing community activist work i'm in district 10 and requested even before mississippi killing that my captain condominium to workshops how to conduct the citizens right and teach the young people i got no erroneous i want to tell you not all the young people that are committed crimes are guilt in my day they used to beat us up now they kill us the discretion in the police department is real i was playing in the park okay. we need to stop this and stop this now.
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>> thank you, mr. logging i think so (clapping). >> next speaker >> welcome. >> ladies and gentlemen, the audience and commissioners good evening. >> good evening. >> for the record i'm standing before this commission many times talking about various subjects i have one item on my plate since i only have two minutes is that about 5 months ago i stood before this commission and asked so for the commission report and the person that was shot by a policeman i've yet to see the report since then another shooting of a college student with no weapon since then the sfpd and i'm sure you're looking at this briefing we've had
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across the country in ferguson missouri and north carolina the shooting off an individual whether black and white without a weapon my concern in the city and county of san francisco what does the police do to train policemen to put 8 slugs into that something that doesn't have a weapon i believe they used 40 cellars and the race two city college student had 18 slugs and ferguson had 8 and in north carolina another 8 bullets what kind of training does the police have to do something like that to someone that doesn't have a weapon what possesses them that's my question to you what is the training that the police academy
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that causes someone to do that what what is it last but not least is this is i've yet to see those two reports on the shooting at city college or the city college students i thank you the clerk one last issue 7 copies the city college newspapers of them parading a police around and going goes into the story of the shootings thank you. >> welcome. >> hi commissioner president loftus and i'm been here many times what everyone is saying lack of transparency plus lack of affordability equals rampant police corruption you've had warnings from me and thousand of people are victimized for
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decades why do we not have the badge cantonese or the citizen badge cameras we need the cameras on the cops we don't trust the cops i'm going to get you e quote you from mr. scott by the way, they fired in coping immediately, the affordability and the transparency in charles south carolina it better than that in california that's sinful exemplary. >> the following mr. scott said it will not come to light they swept it under the rug when i saw it i feel to my knees it looked like he was trying to kill a deer i don't know if it was racial or something wrong with his head i won't read on the bottom line
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how much longer do we have to have the cantonese the cameras are on the cops today in south carolina what's taking so long chief suhr thank you (clapping.) >> and one point that's come up the rules of the self-examination the chief didn't have the authority to firefighter a police officer little rules are on the website welcome. >> welcome president and commissioners i'm doug the president and ceo a local solar company here inform san francisco, however, i'm here on behalf of m-3 mentor movement a nonprofit organization that is providing planning i training for solar and network academy is to the previously incarcerated to reduce recidivism
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now i know that everyone on the commission is highly regarded in may bill but there's a disconnect clamism and sexism is wrong the m-3 to get rid of the bad apples and offer training for the remaining police department so the force can be aware of the internal bias and the difference population that san francisco has. >> thank you>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> welcome. >> good afternoon, president and chief suhr e london and pastor brown i don't come here to speak this is my second time to come to the
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police commission hearing i'll say that i'm a native san franciscan a retired san francisco police officer i believe that all lives matter i have two nephews opd i believe that all lives matter and the gentleman that came up and was talking about the body cantonese i think that that should be something it san francisco police department should be thinking about before any incident like in south carolina body cams will protect the citizens of san francisco that does not trust the blood alcohol and also the police officer to corroborate his story so if body cameras can be purchased and the
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training and policy put forth i think that it will safer a lot of questions also i know that when you talk about the different types of things that go on in a department it has to go through the police commission the chief can't do it i respect chief suhr and i know that he is not a number of things in terms of the community but the police community relations department was cancelled back in the early 80s there was no money and i think that should be reimplemented thank you. >> thank you, sir (clapping) and. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm. >> affordable health care
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a.k.a. i want to bring attention to the gentleman he was a police officer that was stopped over in the bayview after showing the police he had a badge he was in effect a police officer bureaucrat listed and trumped up kaiser charges he beat his case now they're trying to fire him how deep rooted is this you know what i'm saying here's a police officer okay anyway, he they trying to take his badge and we would like to look at this deeper if we can. >> thank you, mr. district attorney's office. >> next speaker. >> is there any public comment?
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