saying our mission always is to protect public safety and to do that with respect for all san franciscans. we're committed to facilitating the first amendment expression for anybody that wants to exercise them, but we have a duty to maintain peace and public safety for all of our residents and visitors and protect property. in terms of this particular operation, it occurred on july 9, 2018. the past monday -- not this monday, but the past monday. and basically, we were called and received numerous calls throughout the week from july 2 until july 9 regarding a shutdown of the 400 block of washington street. now, it initially started as a first amendment activity in front of the federal building. that's the homeland security-i.c.e. building at 444 washington. after the 2nd, the streets were

blocked off by some of the involved individuals, and they were blocked off using pallets, fencing material. there were vehicles at some point, and some our city has specific -- >> commissioner mazzucco: excuse me. let the chief speak. please don't interrupt while the chief is speaking. it's your first warning. thank you. >> -- again camping on the sidewalks, and as the week went along, there were several tents that were encamped on the sidewalks and both sides of the street. on the night of the incident, we -- after we cleared the -- the streets, there were approximately 25 tents that were tagged and bagged by the department of public works, so i said we had received numerous complaints by the public, including public urination,

cooking on the sidewalks, and numerous incidents of disturbing the peace. starting on the 2nd, our officers and central captain went to the location and admonishments were given by a central area sergeant to advised the people that were camping in the streets in the tents that it was against section 647 (e) and that continued action could lead to their arrest. that started on july 2. it continued throughout the week. almost all of these admonishments were captured on body worn cameras, but there were a few that weren't. but the majority of them were. and also, these incidents were documented via incident reports. midway through the week, we had the 4th of july holiday, and one of the things that i think was a good thing was traffic

was much lower during the holiday and the holiday week because a lot of people were outside, so it didn't impact traffic as much. we knew that on monday, july 9, that traffic would be back to normal, and the encampments grew throughout that week. we were monitoring it. our central offices were monitoring it. starting july 7, our sergeants went out and gave warnings every two hours, and those warnings were captured on body worn cameras as well as documented in an incident report. and basically, the warning was -- i'll read it to you, actually. the warning basically -- was

read by a sergeant and stated, after the sergeant gave the name, you are in violation of 647 e of the penal code for illegal lodging. you are subject to being cited or arrest. please breakdown your tents and leave the block. that was done about every two hours from the 7th to the time we took action on the 9th. in addition to the warnings, we requested that the department of public health go out and do a health assessment as far as

the potential hazards to health. now, i will say that there were no health hazards noted in terms of needles and that time of thing in the streets. however, there were two portapotties that were in the street, that was urination that was complained about, and that led to our decision to take action on this particular encampment before things got worse. as we monitored during the week, it started to grow by the day, basically with the numbers tents and everything that was going on. so on july 9, which was monday night around 12:30 in the morning, our officers were assembled and action was taken to basic plea -- basically breakdown the encampment. the address was given both by public address systems on the police cars and officers to

members of the encampment. and those that refused to leave -- some people did leave. those that refused to leave were basically arrested, and there were 39 arrests for 647 (e) and there were a number of arrests that had additional charges for 148 pc, interfering or resisting arrest. there were five use of forces when this took place. the use of forces basically consisted of bodily force, physical control holds. the extended range impact weapon was used on one individual. there was a kick, and a baton strike. four of the individuals that -- who force was used on were arrested, so we were able to identify the fifth individual ran from the scene, and we were not able to identify that person. body worn cameras, like i said, were in use during the entire operation, so everything that was done was captured on body worn cameras.

i do have a few photos if the commission would like to see, just to give a picture of what the encampment looked like and the road closure, and we can put that on the overhead. >> commissioner dejesus: i'd like that, please. >> just put a couple up. so basically, what the photos will depict, what you're going to be looking at is washington,

and i think that's looking from battery, looking towards sansone. and basically, you can see that's washington street that's totally blocked, barricaded by the wooden pallets. you can put the next one up. this was taken, as you see, that's washington and sansome. those barbecue pits, although not in use, they had been in use in the middle of a public roadway. the federal building, as you look at that picture, is on the right -- on the left, i'm sorry, your right. and then, where the green and white tent is, that's across the street from the federal building. there are businesses there on the other side of the street. and again, the portapotties went up about midweek, but you see the two portapotties on the

side. that's washington boulevard there, as well. you can see the tent encampments from a previous picture starting to grow out in the street. this is the other, and i believe this is on the sansome end. and you see the wooden pallets. and those wooden pallets were also at some point during the -- during this -- this action, this protest, they were stacked up against the building -- the federal building, as well. so that is the summary of -- of the operation. as i said, there were 39 arrests, they were all misdemeanor arrests, and those that were citable and releasable, i think everybody ended up getting released, but that is basically the summary of the activity. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, chief. >> commissioner dejesus: i didn't see any barbed wire in there. >> it doesn't show in the

picture, and there were some of the pallets that had barbed wire. it doesn't show in these photos -- in the photographs, but the officer saw them out there. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: chief, a couple of follow up questions, and again, this may reflect my newness on the commission. why was this done late at night in the dark? >> two reasons. less of an impact on the community in terms of -- other than the noise. to do this type of operation, and then, this was learned from experience during previous occupy movements, during the daytime, it causes a much bigger distribution to the -- distraction to the community. we not only end up dealing with the encampment or the issue at hand, but you end up having to manage large crowds during the operation as well, so from a

tactical standpoint, it's a lot safer to do that when you're not going to have those issues. we learned that here in san francisco and when i was in los angeles during the time of the occupy and other movements. we learned from our mistakes. doing these operations at an optimal time is really important to the success of the operation, and it's safer. >> commissioner hamasaki: and as far as -- you stated that every two hours, even into the night, warnings were given. were these -- you read basically to disburse, and this was also unlawful. my question was were these warnings also given into the night up until the clearing of the camp? >> yes, they were, and that's well documented in the incident report in terms of the times they were given, and the incident numbers, so we can go back and track the body worn camera that was captured -- that captured the actual warnings. >> commissioner hamasaki: great. and you mentioned that there

was five documented uses of force. were these incidents captured on body worn cameras? >> the incidents were captured on body worn camera, and the -- the force incidents are all being investigated. they were -- all the notifications were made that night, and again, the one individual that ran away, we were not able to identify that person, so it was reports, but we couldn't identify that person nor attempt to interview that person. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. and finally, i understand that you mentioned some property that was seized. was that returned to the people or to people -- were pima allowed to come claim them later or how was that dealt with? >> yeah. so the process with this or any encampment where we have lodging on public streets or sidewalks, the department of public works is requested and

basically, they tagged the property, they store it, and the individuals who the property belongs to have -- have every right to go and claim their property. and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. and that's the process -- that's the process for every time of operation like that where we clear an encampment. >> commissioner hamasaki: and i'm sorry. commissioner dejesus reminded me, and this might have come at public comment last time. but were any of the tents taken down using cutting implements or in any way damages during this operation -- >> chief, i'm wondering, did

the city provide those portapotties or barricades or were those all provided by the protesters. >> no. i don't know who the origin of those portapotties were. some of the barricades that you saw were d.p.w., public works barricades, but they weren't authorized to be used, so they were basically taken without authorization and placed there. >> commissioner hirsch: all right. i also saw, i think in the first picture, there was a fire department there -- fire station. were they locked in because of the barricades? >> they were able to get out because there were some emergency calls. because as a matter of fact that night, there was an emergency call. so they were able to get out. it was definitely not an ideal situation, but i can't say they were blocked in. it -- it did -- it did create a problem, but it didn't prevent them from getting out of the fire station. >> commissioner hirsch: thanks. >> commissioner mazzucco: all right. thank you, chief. i know that was requested last week and thank you for filling

us in. it was thorough. extremely thorough. if you would continue with your report, please. >> thank you, commissioner. so as far as the rest of my report, there is actually no significant events to report for this week. there are just a couple of other items of interest. so we had -- in addition to the crime i reported, we had a fatal traffic collision unfortunately yesterday at slope and 36th. we had an elderly individual that was crossing the street at 36th and sloat. he was struck by a vehicle.

although there were c.p.r. -- c.p.r. was performed at the scene, unfortunately he did not survive his injuries. so we are committed with vision zero, and we do, from time to time, unfortunately see pedestrian accidents a lot of times involving elderly individuals who can't get across the street quickly, and this is something that we definitely continuing to focus on. one of our traffic violations that we focus on are our pedestrians that cross in the crosswalks, so our focus is -- this is still a very big part of our strategy to reduce traffic collisions. last year, we did very well. i think we had the lowest number of traffic deaths in many, many years in san francisco, so hopefully, we can continue that trend. but to the public, i'd like to say, you know, we all have to do our part, and pedestrian

violations oftentimes, we see people that totally ignore traffic signals, and a lot of the pedestrians that do end up involved in traffic collisions is totally avoidable in my opinion. it's tragic that we have to report a death, but for those of us that still have to use our roadways, we need everybody to do their part in terms of pedestrian safety. and that concludes this portion of the report. the next portion we have a report on are d.n.a. testing, and we have captain dominick yen. >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, captain yen. >> good evening, president mazzucco, chief scott, and director henderson. between the january 1 and june 30 this year, the special

victims unit has collected 167 sexual assault evidence kits, and only six did not fit within that five-daytime line, and i wanted to explain those six in person. so out of the six, two were actually collected on one particular day but weren't booked in so that s.v.u. could go and collect those. and if you count those, that means four out of the six actually surpassed that five-day timeline. one out of the other four is based on the fact that another police jurisdiction had actually booked it very, very late, so by the time s.v.u. was notified, it are already exceeded the five-day limit, and the others were booked on the legal holidays in confluence of a friday and aymond, and on those two, we were only late by one day.

and i want to assure the commission that even though we book it in one day late, it doesn't change the efficacy of the results and it doesn't effect the turnaround time in director john sanchez's group in conducting or doing the d.n.a. testing. >> and thank you. this commission took the lead and actually we were one of the first jurisdictions to put forward our department general orders in our rules about having all the kits tested, so thank you for doing that. obviously, the numbers are not perfect, but there's an explanation why they are a day or two off that's acceptable. i also want to take this opportunity -- you said s.v.u. for the members of the public, that's special victims unit. there's a pending case, but i think you did a good job on the arrest of the lyft driver of the pending multiple assaults.

you did a lot of work to solve these four very, very terrible incidents. i was going to thank the chief for thee efforts of the inspectors. it's a good display of the police work that we do. >> well, thank you, commissioner. i'll take that book to the troopers and let them know the appreciation of the commission. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner elias. >> commissioner elias: thank you. i was reviewing the charts that were included within your report, and it seems to be within a 30-day turnaround time. >> for most cases, that's absolutely correct, and that's due to the good work of director john sanchez. >> commissioner elias: okay. and then, the other question i have is i noticed on the case status, there were sort of 94 inactive cases. is that of the 167 that you had reported that were collected

and submitted to the crime lab? >> yeah. >> commissioner elias: and what does the inactive status exactly mean? >> so that means at times in the investigation we can't get ahold of the original victim again or they change their minds or there's actually nothing found or maybe there wasn't a real hit in codis, so that's why they're deemed not active. >> commissioner elias: and i would assume that doesn't count those that are being prosecuted because the number being prosecuted are actually one-third of the open cases. >> that's correct. >> commissioner dejesus: so i have a quick question. so this has been in the paper recently. i think there's some legislation being proposed in sacramento regarding kits and turnaround time. i don't know the exact number, but i'm sure whether you're on top -- you're on top of it, but do you know whether we would comply with the proposed legislation on that?

>> i think we're way ahead of the game. >> commissioner dejesus: thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: anything -- >> commissioner dejesus: i'm sorry. one more thing. i noticed on case status, on the cases sent to the district attorney's office, 15 of those were discharged. >> am. so the d.a. -- yes ma'am. so the d.a. does their own review, and based on the policy that they have, and reinterview of the victims and such, sometimes, the victims choose not to go forward. a lot of that is both the police department and the d.a.'s office take a very victim-focused, victim centered approach. we're very trauma informed when it comes to those, so instead of retraumatizing the victim, sometimes we have to take that step back. >> commissioner dejesus: and we don't toe -- >> commissioner elias: and we don't know what the conviction rates are in these cases. >> no, because some of those go on years and years and years. it would take us much longer to define those numbers.

>> commissioner elias: thank you. >> if i could comment to commissioner elias, we were in the process of putting together a more robust case tracking mcment system, ought mate -- management system, and hopefully, that'll help the investigators get a better handle on tracking those kinds of things. >> commissioner elias: great. i think that would be good information for the public to have. thank you for that. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, captain. anything further? thank you, captain. >> thank you. please call line item 1(c). >> clerk: item 1(c), commission report. commission president's report, commissioners' report. >> commissioner mazzucco: there's nothing for me to report this evening. commissioners, anything you'd like to report? commissioner ally as? >> commissioner elias: thank you. today i attended the c.i.t. training, and i have to say that i was actually -- in

addition to the awards ceremony that i attended, that commissioner hamasaki and i attended last month, i was actually very impressed with the c.i.t. working group with the efforts they've made and the efforts that they're making to roll out more c.i.t. training available to officers and have more officers at each district station that are c.i.t. trained and can employ deescalation tactics. two other announcements i did want to make were with respect to the bias working group, it's my understanding that the group hasn't met since march, but we are reconvening, and we will be having a bias work group meeting on july 26 -- you okay? you need some water? >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah, i'm good. >> commissioner elias: i got choked up on this, too. so in any event, the bias working group will be on july 26 at 10:00 a.m. at police

headquarters, and i would invite people to come and participate in that working group. also, the accountability working group will be held on july 25 between 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at police headquarters, and again, an open invitation. >> commissioner hamasaki: -- >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. for the record, i'm choking on these mints. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: i'm the representative for the website redesign. so i went yesterday, and they're going to have the department redesign and our redesign. working with the commission staff, we found some areas that we didn't really think belonged with us, so we made some really good recommendations, what they'd like to say. i'm going to have sergeant kilshaw type up, what it looks like right now, but that's not how it's going to remain because we made

recommendations. maybe we can include some of those notes on there, but i think you should look at it, if there's something that you think is missing or something that you'd like to see that isn't on there, we're pretty much adding to the standard, like the d.o.j. reforms. that was a list, and they broke out some of them, the use of force. we decided we would have a reverse chron. where you can see the most recent first. there's a lot of things -- there's a lot of things that were added. so we'll send it to you and we would like your input before it comes to a final design, and then everyone says oh, you forgot this, oh, you forgot that. so any ways, that's my report. >> commissioner mazzucco: very good. please call the next line item. >> clerk: item 1(d) scheduling and items identified for future

action. >> commissioner mazzucco: any announcements. >> clerk: for the public, the commission will be dark next week, july 25. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: can you, commissioner mazzucco. i just wanted to follow up and let the public know there was an agendaized item tonight, item four, regarding the discussion on an addendum to the m.o.u. between the city, the department and cal d.o.j. i asked the vice president to take that item off the calendar. i had a chance to speak with a representative of the mayor's office, the cal d.o.j., hillard hines which is the consultant that's working on the d.o.j. reforms, and i had a nice conversation with the chief this afternoon, and we discussed basically

strengthening the -- some of the language in the addendum, so we are going to put that back on calendar -- or the intention is to put that back on calendar on august 1, so that's why we're removing it from calendar tonight, but it will be addressed at the next meeting. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you for explaining that. commissioners, anything further? okay. it's time for public comment. >> clerk: public comment on items 1(a) through (d). >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, miss letterman. how are you? it's good to see you. >> i'm rachel letterman. i'm representing the national lawyers guild. i have some comments on the operation in which the 39 people were arrested. first of all, we condemn the use of san francisco resources to arrest persons who are peacefully protesting federal immigration policy, and we're very alarmed to hear of the brutal manner in which these arrests were carried out

undercover of darkness. in particular, i'm very concerned to hear that director fired impact munitions were used on demonstrators. this is the first time i've heard of this happening in san francisco in connection with a demonstration or crowd event, and these -- the plastic and foam rubber projectiles that were used -- you know, they're referred to as "less lethal" but they're high velocity impact munitions that can easily cause serious injuries or death if they happen to hit you in the wrong place, and that's likely to happen when it's used in a crowd situation or volatile situation where people are moved rapidly. i -- i haven't heard about this happening in san francisco, and actually, i've worked extensively with the oakland police to avoid a repeat of

past tragedies when demonstrators were seriously injured by use of impact munitions there. my client, scott olsen, suffered permanent brain damage when i was an unintended target. the officer was aiming for someone else, hit him in the head, and he lost part of his brain. the city of oakland paid millions of dollars for that, but it didn't give my client haze brain back. and i -- his brain back. and i think the commission should seriously inquire into what guidelines the sfpd has for using these dangerous munitions before injury occurred. in these discussions we held up san francisco as an role model for an experienced police department that has been able to handle volatile crowd situations without using dangerous weapons. it seems to me that the officers went in amped up,

loaded for bear in an unnecessarily aggressive and provocative manner late a night, and a number of people were hurt, including being dragged by the arms and by being hit and having re-trinity used on them. sfpd is experienced in dealing with passive resistance, and there's other things that can be done to get people to disburse without dragging -- [inaudible] >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, miss letterman. thank you. need to abolish i.c

there's an incredible movement. it's been introduced in the house of representatives in the new york house, there's bills to stop this. i am talking to two supervisors in san francisco who are ready to put boabolish i.c.e. we cannot have i.c.e. in this state. this is a sanctuary city, this is a sanctuary state. we are just not protesters like they said in standing rock. as the news flies back, we are over in helsinki -- when i think about children being treated like this, i can't even speak. this is the most appalling, i never thought we would come to this. but the police can't be part of this and say they're following orders. i talked to the -- why this

happened last week is shocking to me. i talked to you in the hallway, and you told me i wasn't playing fair. i'm not playing. this is not a game. this is the most despicable thing this country has ever done, to have our children dragged to jail. it's just appalling, and these people that are out there, they kept a good camp. they informed a lot of people. so many people came out with donations, saying thank you for what you're doing. that's the response we got. we never had anybody come and tell us to leave. an old man, 80 years old and said, you can use my showers. this has to stop. we are doing what we need to do in every way we can. you mentioned the first amendment rights. that's still -- >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, magic. next speaker.

good evening. >> good evening. i'm the person which treated the meeting which caused the district attorney's office and the police department to be summoned by supervisor ronen. it started by women -- women are being commended by their performance. then it was my turn to speak. i pointed out how i'm speaking out for women who were on the receiving end of being assaulted and got 437 rape kits that are not being tested. i watched one of the females cry out for help and said is there anybody out there that can help us because every time we complain we keep getting hit with the statute of limitations. as a result i went to the law library and found there's this law called continual injuries. continual injuries means the statute of limitations is

tolled because you can still demonstrate your injury. as a result of me making that demonstration, supervisor ronen setup a hearing. i also pointed out that there's another way of getting around the statute of limitations pertaining to fraud. if you show that you tried to correct the problem within a year from the incident, the statute of limitations is tolled there, too. so as a result, a hearing took place, and at that hearing, i pointed out the same set of facts, and i also pointed out that there should not be no statute of limitations on assault in the first place. when the police were talking about their number one priority was car break-ins, and i said they got their values mixed up, assault should be a higher priority. you've got all these victims of assaults, and you've got all those assault kits, which i suspect would be about 1,000 or 500 just sitting there, and those are the easiest type of cases to settle. now as a result of that demonstration, i also pointed

out that there's this white skinned colored male that just got arrested, and he's killed on or about 15 people and assaulted on or about 50 women. that's another example why there should not be no statute of limitations on assault. this person has been at large for 42 years. i didn't know his name at the time because they just caught the last part of the news, but i heard the crime that he got arrested for. turns out his name is mr. deangelo. so after that demonstration by miself-over seen by supervisor ronen on or about a week later, the legislators in sacramento that were watching that came down with new legislation that there's no more statute of limitations on assault, and i want to commend ronen for that for giving me the opportunity to express the way that i need to express myself about this

topic. now, you had a police officer that claims that $2 million was granted to the police for that information -- >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much, sir. thank you very much. >> i've got a question. [inaudible] >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, sir. what you want to do is maybe direct that question to sergeant yen -- lieutenant yamaguchi will take your question. next speaker. >> so i'm a man called clifford. this is going to be sort of tangential to the i.c.e. event and the policies and priorities. it seems the police are more concerned with harassing mentally disturbed individuals and harassing and attacking

women than they are with dealing with child assaulters. on may 17, the sfpd were protecting and abating known child assaulters and former israeli prime minister ah ahad barak. so the sfpd is going around being all big and bid, when they're protecting the enemies of not only san francisco by the american people. so the sfpd is engaged in treason, which is war against the people. i see we have a lot of legal scholars. do any of you know what the punishment is for war against the people? it's capital punishment. does anyone know what capital punishment is? that's execution. so all the police and everyone up here by association is subject to capital punishment under the law. if you call yourself law enforcement, you should understand that. i assume you've read the

constitution, which is the law of the land. and another thing, as far as chief scott saying he doesn't know what got the porta potties. i was talking to the man who claimed he got them who was former military, allegedly, so when you asked, did the city get the porta potties, and oh, it was military personnel, the city might have had a hand in it. chief scott, you've been kind of duplicitous, kind of dishonest, so i'm here saying the police need to be abolished. i want the war to stop. when someone is engaged in war against you, your option is to kill them before they kill you or get them to surrender. the sfpd is engaged in war against the people, and that's treason, and the punishment for that is capital punishment, and you all know what to do, turnover your weapons,

surrender, and abolish this criminal organization. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. good evening. i was here last week, and you directed me to the attention of lieutenant yamaguchi. as i said previously, he did not help me, and he still has not helped me, and it's been months. [inaudible] >> -- no contact was made. it was a 3.5 hour stakeout, attempted force entry, threats of a search warrant while we were asleep. furthermore, this now has launched a miscellaneous investigation by the f.c.u. what does that mean? what is a miscellaneous

investigation? sergeant, you, from the s.v.u. didn't seem to know. the f.b.i. seemed perplexed on what a miscellaneous investigation is. i still don't know. i still don't have any answers. and when i asked lieutenant yamaguchi, he said, the police can investigate anything they want. how is that possible? furthermore, captain engler of the northern station said i'm a reportee on my own incident report. why would i call the police on myself? it makes no sense. he didn't seem concerned about his officers behavior. he didn't think it was strange that i would call the police to do a check on my daughter and

myself. i just don't understand why my civil rights are continuing to be violated again and again and again and again because i happen to know an off duty sfpd officer. i'm a resident of the marina, and i'm a tax paying citizen, and i demand answers to what's going on. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello there. i was there during the i.c.e. occupation. i just wanted to say that the police chief, when you were talking about the raid that happened on that encampment, you made it seem like oh, you know, since two days, police giving warnings every two hours, etcetera. that was -- that was maybe a couple officers in a car, giving warnings. and then, at 12:30 in the morning, when the camp was

actually raided, there were, you know, hundreds -- probably at least 100 cops that rolled up without any warning, right? didn't let people leave at that point. at no point were there a force of officers there that were capable of dealing with raiding that camp which was what you all's intent was, all right, against the sanctuary city policy. the intention was clearly to try to catch people who were in that camp who were, you know, may have had serious consequences if they were caught because, you know, homeland security, maybe i.c.e. was after them. i just wanted to say that about your comments -- >> commissioner mazzucco: sir, you have to direct your statements to the entire commission. >> i wants to say that about the police chief's comments, warnings were given, oh, we

gave everybody as much of a chance as they were. no. they had two officers there, once in a while, two cars there. they were saying the same thing, and then they hit the camp hard with eight or nine -- i couldn't tell how many. and people came back afterward to try to film -- it was undercover the darkness. i came out afterwards trying to film. i was fortunate to get out of camp afterwards, and i came back trying to see what was happening. a block down the street before i could even get there, multiple officers said no, you can't come any closer, this street is closed, prevented anyone from coming closer, at least a street down with vans blocking so no one could come in, no one could tell, and no one could see or document or film what was going on. i wanted to say that. i'll read what i can of my statement.

>> i was there when police threatened the campers with protests and violence time and again -- that's not my final. >> commissioner mazzucco: sir, you have 28 seconds. >> -- by day and by night on behalf of the deplorable enterist organization, i.c.e. i was there for all of it in the city, my home city, which i did live 18 years, and i spend most of my time, in a city which claims to be a sanctuary city, in a state that claims to be a sanctuary state -- [inaudible] muz muz thank you, sir. any further public speakers? hearing none, public comment is closed. if if you want to speak, please lineup. all right. go ahead. >> good evening. last week, i shared with you

what happened to an elderly friend of my who was outside the i.c.e. protest on july 9. a few days later i learned how forceful the police officer was when he knocked my friend down with his baton not once but twice. a report was filed by some witnesses who were present, and i will also file one as advised by you. i don't know -- know if the body cam of the police officer who did this was on. you know, from what i understand, the body cameras were on when the encampment was raided, and think that was inside. i don't think this was outside. we've heard statistics of how many officers have received deescalation training and the concern on the use of force issues. what is of grave concern to me is the disconnect of practice of officers on the streets. i don't know how certain behaviors and practices will be changed, but they do need to be changed to undo years of abuse

and mistrust in our communities, especially communities of colors. i leave you with two questions. one, where does the police commission and the san francisco police department stand on the issue of i.c.e.? two, where does the police commission and the san francisco police department stand on san francisco being a sanctuary city? there's one comment that -- another comment. i understood that there were two people that were hospitalized, you know, from this incident, and no mention was mentioned about that. i understand they were both released from the hospital now. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. public comment's now closed. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: i guess -- i know there were five uses of force. the five uses of force, those are the -- i call them bean bags, but they are -- >> e.r. w.

>> yeah, those are the e.r. w.'s, and i guess we would look back at the use of force and see why you had to use them. the people that were hopsized, about they hospitalized because of the use of weapons? >> one was hospitalized -- it was a bodily force use of force, and he was treated and released. hang on one second here, commissioner. >> extended range impact

weapon. >> so one of the persons that was taken was due to physical control hold, and the second person that was treated and released was the person that was struck by the e.r. w., the extended range impact weapon round, and they were both released. >> commissioner dejesus: and the other question i had was somebody mentioned that people were -- and i don't know if this was accurate, that some people were caught for i.c.e. i'm not saying that's true or not, but i'm wondering, was the department looking for anybody in particular for i.c.e., or did the department respond to complaints from i.c.e. to clear the streets? >> no. there was no involvement whatsoever from i.c.e. or homeland security on this operation, and nobody was held or detained or any of that for i.c.e. immigration was not an issue for any of our action. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, chief.

please call line item 2. >> clerk: line item 2, discussion and possible action to temporarily modified d.g.o. 10.01, uniform and equipment, action. >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, deputy chief connolly. >> mike connolly from professional standards who oversees written directives. i'm here to introduce sergeant ray padmore who will be discussing department rule 18-135. the pink patch project is for breast cancer awareness as it does temporarily modify department general order 10.1, and as such, that's why i'm introducing them. sergeant padmore? >> thank you, chief. >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, sergeant. >> good evening, vice president

mazzucco, esteemed members of the police commission, chief scott, director henderson, and members of the public. my name is ray padmore, and my intention through my presentation this evening is really two ford, to share -- twofold. to share the pink patch project, and to share the intention of the san francisco police department to participate in this amazing, amazing project. it started in 2016 with several different public safety agencies around the nation. members of the participating agencies, such as we hope to ourselves, will wear the patches on their uniform for the entire month of october each year during breast cancer awareness month. some of the benefits i

highlighted, and there are many, each agency participating will be partnering with a cancer research organization. it just so happens that ours will be the bay area cancer connection, local 501(c)3. so through. p.o.a., pink patches will be sold to officers that desire. it's not compulsory. it's not mandatory by any stretch of anyone's imagination. if they desire to be part of this great cause in which all of the proceeds will go to this nonprofit i just mentioned. the pink patches are intended to stimulate conversation with the community and to encourage public awareness about the importance of early detection and the ongoing fight against this dreadful disease. just some stats. approximately one in eight

women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in her lifetime. it's the second most common cause of death, and almost 2.5 million breast cancer survivors are alive in the united states today. currently there are 170-plus public service agencies like ours, we hope, from all over this great nation which include law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services, and federal agencies, all participating in this amazing, amazing cause. just to name a few, so down south, los angeles county public safety agencies, all of san jose he's public safety agencies -- san jose's public safety agencies, most of u.c. san francisco is the 14th largest police department in the nation, and as such, we

have an obligation to dem stras leadership -- demonstrate leadership in supporting this worthy cause. the month of october is nationally recognized as breast cancer awareness month. the department's participation in solidarity with this cause will demonstrate our cause to be part of something greater than ourselves, and donate funds donated to research for this cause. in closing, on behalf of the men and women of the san francisco police department, i ask for your favorable, favorable consideration and approval of our request. permit me to call upon officer shawn navarro what the uniform would potentially look like.

>> simply stated, this is what this incredible uniform would look like, and we're looking forward to donning this come october. >> commissioner mazzucco: i understand the officers don't wear the patch. we do this amendment to the dress code, so to speak, the officers can wear pink t-shirts underneath their shirt as opposed to the usually -- >> the black or blue t-shirt, yes, sir. >> commissioner mazzucco: and then e the police officer's association role in this -- i actually see sergeant mccray here -- would you like to say something about this, sergeant mccray? hello, sergeant mccray, how are you? >> vice president, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson, community members, thank you for hearing our presentation. rachel, along with lieutenant

hurwitz, sergeant crimiano, when we discussed this about donating the funds to a local organization, i don't think there hasn't been anyone that hasn't been touched by someone they know having cancer. unfortunately, we've lost active duty members. i believe the last one was lieutenant yvonne pratt to breast cancer, so it touches everyone. our friends, our families, just the community as a whole. so by doing this, raising these funds, donating to a local organization who i believe for the past nine years have had a four-star rating for the work that they do do in the community, what they provide, emotional support, support for caregivers, which is a -- really, a daunting task of having to take care of someone

or being there for someone who does, unfortunately, suffer from cancer. so it was our hope that by doing this, raising awareness, joining, as you know, professional leagues, n.f.l. players, they donned the pimnk. we just wanted to do our part in supporting this community. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commission commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: thank you. i wanted to thank you for bringing this farther and putting this on our agenda. my mom is a two time cancer survivor. i'm wondering if there's an ability to have people donate on behalf of officers so that, you know, i know that people can get the patches themselves, but if people were able to donate, and then, you were able to provide officers who hadn't, you know, purchased the patch,

if that would be possible. >> of course. we'll take it all. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner dejesus says she wanted to buy several. >> yeah. you can buy them. pink is your color. but there's a mechanism by people to do that. >> also, buy extra back donated to the department? >> yeah. >> yeah. i just wanted to add through this local agency, if they wanted to go to the website specifically, they can do that, as well. so this is just one mechanism through the police department, but we will put them in contact with this agency, which is -- it's as local as it gets. the bay area cancer connection, and their goal, as sergeant mccray mentioned, personal support to breast and ovarian cancer patients and their families, so it's pretty broad in terms of the services they provide. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. thank you so much.