. >> good afternoon, supervisors eric brooks brooks i take it the sustainability chair for the green parties it is important with we move forward pieces of legislation like this we're not telling me rec and park and the planning department they've got cart blank to cut down trees with the climate crisis we need to stop that policy we can't just keep cutting down large trees like the eucalyptus 80 that gaths gather carbon monoxide 0 more than any tree i'm not saying which wyoming way to vote but not to allow the clear cutting of the trees if our parks system. >> thanks. >> is there any additional public comment on item one seeing none, public comment is closed and supervisor kim would i have a motion to forward to the full board we'll take that without objection. without observation that will be the order. >> item 2 is a approving of an easement with the surface project on 923 fulsome street. >> we have the department of real estate. >> this authorizes the grant of a sub surface tieback and surface access to fulsome which is where fire station number one is located the just a minute p

. >> thank you very much eric brooks hello mr. brooks. >> hello commissioners it's been a while eric brooks i'll represented green party the grassroots in our city i'm also a member of san francisco clean energy advocates all who make the representatives in this room just want to say speak to the jobs issue we may not to quickly about specifics on the jobs but what is noticeable about what is in the papers and the annex report before this report came out a couches years ago there was talk from go agencies in the city government they're not being jobs at all or maybe even a deficit of a hundred or so jobs now we've got that completely clarified for us in this report it is really clear of we got a fourth of the jobs that's a couple thousand of jobs that's not bad this is jobs positive in a bag way and a lot of those jobs will be local and fall under the local hiring ordinance, etc. so this report as jan and others indicated has cleared up all the things in question and the shell issue is no longer a an issue we know the puc can do this in

eric brooks. >> good afternoon commissioners eric brooks and the sustainability chair for the san francisco green party and i also coordinate the grass roots organization of our committee here in san francisco i sent these comments and a very important study document to you through your secretary claudia gara please make sure you get these documents so you can read them and let me touch base on this just by reading it is the easiest way to go over it in the beginning. dear commissioners, studies show that vastly higher amounts of cancer causing dust is created when implosion is used for building rather than mechanical removal and prohibited in urban areas. i'd like to kick it up a notch and say you don't need a study because this kind of demolition absolutely should not be done in a in a city in an urban area in particular a 2005-case study by environmental health health health calgory states clearly problematic issues surrounding public health protection in effected areas that could extend 10 to 20 kilometers down wind think of the map you just saw and think about the fact that it totally did no

brooks. >> good afternoon again supervisors eric brooks san francisco green local grassroots and representing the san francisco clean energy aligns with hanging and 350 sf first of all, to thank the authenticities for this legislation it the crucial that the san francisco rules committee sells this power at recites i respectfully strongly disagree with others who came forward claiming that is a mandate we've heard from the staff this is not a mandate this is just gives the sfpuc the stools to eye it's good judgment to make a deal for logical purposeers when it's good for them and if the sfpuc decides that pg&e is the better service provider so be it this self-mandate anything to get to clean power sf it is we've been working with you all and the city attorney trying to make sure we have the language for the clean power sf two sunday's ago the huge power with the international peaceable on global warming we have to make sure this board gives the strongest possible voices when it speaks to sfpuc we feel since the city attorney was clear that makes the sfpuc has the discretion we i think it's ok

eric garner. brooke baldwin in lower manhattan. she had been witnessing some arrests. we'll got to brook now. what happened in the last couple second. we have the line of two lines of, new york police officers. if you can see they're continuing to arrest. watching. continuing to show you. nearly two dozen protesters. essentially, staged a sit in here. on the brooklyn bound side of the manhattan bridge. also just happened. photo-journalists. this massive white bus has just rolled out. all these individuals being taken away. mostly young. young white woman beg arreing arrested. young african-american. i have seen, 20 or so sat down. started singing. peacefully. still they were entirely blocking traffic. new york police asked them to leave. continue to block traffic. continue to sing. they're still, watching. here comes another one. in between the rows of officers arresting them. and are loading them in this big white correction bus. don't want you to go anywhere. brooke. rely on you to bring information down there. stand by. may use your camera as well. want to get my panel in. guests here. bec

eric garner. a short while here on cnn. meanwhile, why don't we go to brook, brook is in new york city out in the crowd. there she is. brook, last we saw you you were going back across the brooklyn bridge. where are you right now? >> this has been. i don't know huh to put the last couple hours into words. you are right. for the last, 6:00 eastern time. we, and i say we, hundreds of pooh ha people have been walking from the heart of downtown manhattan, around where city hall, federal courthouse, if you are familiar with the city, this massive group, not on the pedestrian walk way, brooklyn bound, multilane part of the bridge. police shut it down. we walked into brooklyn. in the middle you can see the barkley center. everyone stopped. and it was, something i have -- never seen. having covered this since all of these, since the most recent stories have, have, reverberated. everyone, hundreds of people in the middle of the street stopped. and paused. and laid on the ground. with their cardboard coffins, mothers who have lost children. no matter how you feel on this issue, it was, it was breathtaking. i spoke with one of

president obama and attorney general eric holder condemn the killings and urge calm, for more now we turn to the head of the naacp cornell william brooks. mr. brooks, i want to ask you first, you heard what the head of the police union just said. former governor of new york george pataki, republican, sent out a tweet also very credible of democratic of the mayor, these are his words, we're sickened by these barbaric acts which sadly are predictable out come of divisive anti--cop rhetoric of attorney general eric holder and bill de blasio is that fair? >> i don't think so it's fair. i send my condolences to the families of these police officers. i don't think it's fair because the clear insanity of lone gunman to the peaceful protests and aspirations of many people across the country including the attorney general, the mayor, even the president. simply not fair. >> schieffer: this does appear as you say to be deranged man. but are these shootings somehow a step backwards in the effort to try to get this thing right? >> i believe it's not a step forward. we have a violence problem. think about it this way. the tears of the families of these police o

brooke baldwin reporting from the front lines of the protests over the choke hold of eric garner. our viewers have given us insight on how the police have responded. brooke is joining us from new york and athena jones is with me here in washington. brooken amazing job last night. i think you walked for miles and miles and miles around new york, over the brooklyn bridge. i was watching you all night last night. give us a little flavor of what it was leak. >> sure. i think we clocked seven-plus miles and kudos to my fo photographers for carrying around the equipment. it began in downtown lower manhattan. it was incredibly organic. all ages. a lot of young people, though. i was really struck by the youth of these crowds. you just don't see this happening in a major, major metropolitan area such as new york. you have this massive police presence and they allowed these people, in the hundreds, to cross across the brooklyn bridge and on the side in which cars were driving. we go all the way across the brooklyn bridge and into the heart of downtown brooklyn and then, organically, it was led -- highly organized, i would say, organized and they stopped in the middle of atlantic avenue, right by the barclay center if you've been in brooklyn. the

brooks. mr. brooks, you just heard the commissioner here, are they doing enough? >> in one answer, no. we're looking at the tragedy of eric garner as a single incident. it's not enough. to talk about training retrospectively as opposed -- as to holding people accountable retrospectively that's where we have to go. yes, body cameras. look at training. we have to look at fundamentally changing the culture of policing in new york city and across the country. we have to change the model of policing. in other words, we are -- we have police serving the role as occupying army as opposed to using a community policing model, that's where we have to go. unless we're talking in terms of global, comprehensive reform it's not enough. we have across this country generation of young people who simply seeing that we believe based on imperical evidence, pandemic of police miss conduct. we are not a nation who put our heads in the sand. we have citizens who are rising up and saying, now is the time. >> schieffer: let me just ask you about these incidents that have happened. do you think they happen by coincidence, what happened in missouri, people in new york saw that and this may have triggered the reactions there? we know what has been going on in cleveland. is there a connection between these three things? did they happen think by coincidence or lot of communities facing the very same problem and just all happened hat once here? >> as do citizens of new york, citizens across the country, we see here in terms much these incidents the police brutality and misconduct is part of larger, longer narrative. where you have generations of young men who have been criminalized and arrested en masse. the point being with a policing that is predicated on essentially operating in the community not being of the community. that is fundamentally a problem. this is part of the longer narrative. we simply can't treat these as individual incidents, to be assessed in that way without talking about larger reform in terms of passing the federal racial profiling act, having a national standard or the excessive use of force. looking at and implementing a body camera policy and again fundamentally changing our policing model. nothing less than that is sufficient. >> schieffer: let me ask you this, you know the election of barack obama many people thought that the election of our first african american president would harold in a new era in race relations in this country, yet that does not seem to have happened. why do you think that is? >> well, election of president barack obama may speak to our capacity as a nation. to look beyond race. it does not necessarily speak to the reality of race in this country. racism is alive and well so as i discovered in our journey for justice across 14 miles in seven days we met people who understood that there was a problem. also met people who put their head in to the sand. the fact of the matter is we have a generation of people, our children, who are being profiled. those are hard core facts. one out of every four young african american men believes they have business treated in a given month, that's a tough reality. we have to be careful with it. >> schieffer: we still have the divide. >> we most certainly do. >> mr. brooks, thank you soap much for joining us. we'll be back in one minute. >> schieffer: this week the senate intelligence committee is expected to issue a long expected report on the cia's interrogation practices that were adopted in the aftermath of 9/11. this report is scheduled to be released tuesday but it is so controversial and it's expected to be so explosive that secretary of state john kerry called committee chair diane feinstein last week and expressed concern that its release now could endanger american facilities overseas as well as the lives of american diplomats and intelligence officers. we have learned that the report which was approved only by democrats on the committee concludes that the cia routinely went beyond what was legally allowable in using techniques including waterboarding. it says these techniques were not effective in getting information and it alleges the agency systematically lied to itself, the white house, the department of justice and to congress about effec

brooke baldwin starts right now. >> i'll take it from here. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. both new york's mayor bill de blasio and attorney general eric holder speaking any moment now on frustration and anger and tense times sweeping the nation right now. police violence against minorities. >> i can't breathe. >> i can't breathe. >> this is a video from social media shows one of the many demonstrations nationwide just within the last 24 hours after that staten island grand jury did not indict the police officer accused in the july death of eric garner. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> 11 times you hear eric garner saying i can't breathe. as these officers surrounded him, restrained him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes, which was illegal. the 43-year-old father of six died en route to the hospital according to police and now that police officer, daniel pantaleo, will not be charged but will he be fired? new york police say they plan to investigate that internal investigation which was on hold awaiting the grand jury's decision. we're watching and waiting for the mayor of new york, mayor bill de blasio to speak. let's go to deborah feyerick for more. deborah, what do we expect to hear from the mayor? >> reporter: what we expect to hear from the mayor and the police commissioner is that nypd, all 22,000 officers, will be retrained to a refresher course. three days. 300 officers at a time over the course of a year and they are going to focus on three key areas. theory of policing, techniques of policing and tactical skills. you talk about theory. that's respect. it's influence versus control. you talk about techniques. that's communication. how do you resolve a conflict using words and not actions. also, legal issues, for example. somebody curses at a police officer, somebody tries to bait a police officer, it's not considered disorderly conduct. those are the kind of things that the police officers are going to be brought into the police academy here in queens to get a retraining of. also, tactical stilkills. there's the issue of use of force. how much force do you need? what's the difference between control holds and takedowns and when do you do those things and after care of a subject. many people we spoke to said had eric garner been given the kind of care he was asking for because there was an emergency medical technician on scene. he had been given that care and sat up and cuffed in front opposed to in back, he may have been able to breathe and it wouldn't have been this issue of positional asphyxiation. all police officers will be retrained because the police commissioner and mayor don't want to see a repeat of this and want to make sure police have tools and training to make sure going forward this doesn't happen again. it's not really retraining. they're not changing anything. you can see the boards behind me. those list everything that's out there. it's refreshing police officers so that it doesn't happen. >> okay. deborah feyerick, we'll stay in close contact with you awaiting both the mayor and the police commissioner. keep an eye on that. let me bring in our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin joining me now. >> the district attorney in staten island filed a motion with the court asking for some limited disclosure of what went on in the grand jury. there was just a decision moments ago and let me just read what came out. it is very limited. it is some information about what went on in the grand jury. the grand jury sat for a period of nine weeks. the grand jury heard from 50 witnesses. 22 of the witnesses were civilians. the remaining witnesses, 28 witnesses, were police officers, emt and doctors. 60 exhibits were entered into evidence including four videos. that's all the disclosure that was made. it is something. what that tells you though is that we are not going to get the grand jury transcripts. we're not going to learn what exhibits they saw. we know the videos that have been made public but obviously there were four videos, which is more than have been made public, so that, it appears, all we're going to learn about the grand jury process. >> listening to you and others say, that's not surprising. it was almost like what we saw in ferguson was this anomaly with all of this information and evidence and testimony put out there for everyone to read. >> missouri is very unusual in that there is a procedure in place where you can really open up grand jury proceedings. in most states in the federal government, grand jury proceedings are secret and really there's almost no way of getting to that information. new york is somewhat of a hybrid. you can get a little bit of information. here we have, i think, it's safe to say a little bit of information. it's something. >> i think it's worth just educating america on staten island a little bit. we're talking about this before the show. one would love to know the precise racial background, socioeconomics of the 23 grand jurors that sat for these many months discussing this potential indictment and staten island is a borough into its own here in new york, correct? >> it's very different from the other four boroughs. staten island is much smaller. i believe the population is around 300,000. there are 8 million people roughly in new york city. it is by far the smallest, the whitest, the most politically conservative of the boroughs and the home of many police officers. important to this story is the fact that the district attorney there, daniel donovan, is an elected official, so he answers to that constituency. i don't want to create a conspiracy here that he buried this case because he wants to get in with a conservative electorate but it's a factor to be considered when you think about how this case resolved itself. >> we're waiting to hear from mayor de blasio and we're waiting to hear from commissioner bratton. you know, i'm sitting here and we have discussed multiple high profile cases that have involved young african-american men being killed whether by someone who wanted to be a police officer or law enforcement and in each of the cases off the top of my head, you have an extra layer of federal investigation. we've been hearing from eric holder who is on this listening tour trying to get communities and police together to figure out solutions. we've heard from the president. but has this been fairly typical for the federal government to step in in cases like this to investigate potential civil rights violations? >> i think you can say it's been typical for the federal government to conduct investigations. it is not typical that these investigations wind up with actual prosecutions. it's not zero. there are some very famous cases that have wound up probably the most famous of all was beating of rodney king in los angeles, the officers, people may remember the state trial was moved from downtown los angeles to simi valley, which is a very white part of the los angeles metropolitan area and the jury acquitted the police officers. they were then charged again in federal court and ultimately convicted. at least some of them were. i think when you think about the federal possibility in these recent cases -- >> especially this most recent one here in new york. >> there's a distinction about what went on in ferguson and what went on on staten island. in ferguson case, you had a life or death struggle between officer wilson and michael brown that went on in the car, the gun went off twice and it was followed up by the later shooting. i think it's going to be very hard for the federal government to make a federal case out of that because a federal case requires some sort of racial motivation on the part of the defendants. some part -- it doesn't have to be explicit but the federal government can't bring a case unless they show that there was some sort of racial motivation involved. there is a better chance, i think, of a federal case coming out of what went on in staten island than in ferguson. >> do me a favor. stay with me. we'll get a quick commercial break in. jeff toobin will stay with me. we're waiting to hear from the mayor and police commissioner here in new york speaking in queens specifically about police retraining, what solutions, what can happen in the wake of this nonindictment that has just sent ripples not just here in new york but really nationwide. stay with me. you're watching cnn. about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira giving me new perspective. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an infection. talk to your doctor and visit humira.com this is humira at work dad,thank you mom for said this oftprotecting my future.you. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. if you're a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. try zyrtec-d® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms... so you can breathe easier all day. zyrtec-d®. find it at the pharmacy counter. zyrtec-d®. and i quit smoking with chantix. i had tried to do it in the past. i hadn't been successful. quitting smoking this time was different because i got a prescription for chantix. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. the fact that it reduced the urge to smoke helped me get that confidence that i could do it. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. some people had seizures while taking chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix or history of seizures. don' take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these, stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some can be life-threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems, or develop new or worse symptoms. get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include nausea, trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. i love myself as a non-smoker. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. in taste, freshness, and nutrition? 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brooke baldwin starts right now. >> i'll take it from here. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. both new york's mayor bill de blasio and attorney general ericy moment now on frustration and anger and tense times sweeping the nation right now. police violence against minorities. >> i can't breathe.