wheeler, a ph.d candidate studying in london now and had an incident with ian ferminger. >> please tell us your name. >> my name is nora wheeler. >> okay. how old are you? where do you live? >> i am 37 and i live in england at the moment. >> and please tell us what your ethnic background is? >> i am african-american. >> and did you come in contact with a police officer named ian fer minger some years ago? >> yes, i did. >> and please tell us what happened? >> a friend and i were leaving a location and i was approached and stopped by an officer -- a person that didn't identify themselves and they were trying to take the keys out of my car. i was then pulled out of my car and found out this person was an officer. i was arrested and i was put into a paddy wagon and that's where i came into contact with that officer. i was in the wagon and pretty much they drove around san francisco were playing loud music and i felled up falling over inside the van and i asked can you -- i have fallen. he repeatedly told me to shut up and keep my mouth quiet and put up the volume and kept on driving. event

ferminger said a reprehensible statement and instead of as -- as spoken about that was it reported to the department and not in a response and however intended to be dismissive wasn't appropriate either so there will be some of the officers who won't -- that don't reach the same level as the officers that i will be referring to the commission. eric director hicks and i sat down and we want to get it right. >> >> and those that fall below the minimum qualifications upon the character that we incest upon be dismissed and i am. >> >> going there after this meeting. i have to go over all of the allegations as sustained and sign off of them and sign some suspension letters that are immediate and the letter vs to be served and at that time it's agendized at the police commission and from they take control of the investigations. >> so what's the timeline on this whole thing, do you know? >> there are -- i don't have it off of the top of my head. there are statutory guidelines but it's a quasi judicial procedure once it gets to the commission. >> and i guess this is two questions. number one,

particular struck me about african-american children swimming in the swimming pool where former sergeant ferminger's children swam and how that would contaminate -- i'm not going to use the word that was used but how what would contaminate the pool and so you know about joyce hicks. i'm a daughter of a tuskegee air man and one of the last surviving and his career was stymied because after the air corps were operated in the army and the arm forced were allegedly integrated my father spoke out about that very thing about how african-americans -- officers could only swim in the swooming pool on the base on a wednesday and then they drained the pool and then the white officers could swim for the rest of the week, so i am relieved that the chief has acted swiftly and decisively and is referring not just the matters that the occ uncovered with our limited staffing, but is referring additional officers to the police commission for the police commission to resolve. i not only speak to you as the director of the san francisco office of citizen complaints but also as a board member of the national association

the text were released during a bail hearing for former officer ferminger who has been convicted of core -- corruption. the chief suhr tells abc7 that there will be a recommendation to fire the officers a total of 13 officers are under investigation with more suspensions to come. there will an news conference at 12:30 to to discuss a a concurrent investigation looking into the crime laboratory and changing of evidence. >>> san francisco police are trying to identify the suspect in a vicious and unprovoke attack open a homeless man. surveillance video shows the man hitting the victim on the head with a metal pipe and calmly walking away. it happened open when night. the victim is still in critical condition. our reporter will have more on the victim who is well-known and well licked in -- liked in the neighborhood. >>> a man accused of pushing another man in front of a muni train last month will appear in court today. he faces attempted murder, assault and battery. police say he pushed another map in front of the train during a fight at the civic center station platform march 8. the victi

the texts were exchanged between ferminger and four other sources.signed the other three were reassigned to units with no public contact. >> i applaud him for seeing the light, however, reverend brown president of the san francisco chapter of the naacp says there needs to be more reform. >> how have we had implicit bias in this department, where we've had overt related behavior of racist practices that have been perpetrated against african-americans in this city. >> he confirms there will be more suspensions to come soon. vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> in the north bay police are looking for a man who attacked a driver with a hammer. it happened around 8:00 this morning. the victim went to the hospital police say the victim and the suspect were involved in a crash before the attack. the suspect drove away in a red or maybe maroon car that might be missing its passenger side mirror. >>> caltrain is redoubling its efforts to reduce the recent rise of deaths along its tracks. ten people have been killed this year. by comparison there were only 10 deaths on th

ferminger once he was charged criminally and will do it for the other other officers with this speech and there are a likelihood cases will be challenged. >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much chief. the baltimore police department created a professional standards and accountability bureau to create transparency codify officer accountability to help get rid of corruption and best practices for policy and training for the department, and i would like to hear your thoughts around this desire to see a professional standard created here inside san francisco's police department? >> that chief is a close friend of mine and after being chief in oakland. we sit on the major chiefs together. i will call him tomorrow and see what he's got in place. >> all right. thank you. do you believe there's a need for such a body that creates professional standards as well as accountability for officers? >> well, i do hold my captains responsible for their commands but i think to have an outside -- a unit out of my office whether attached to internal affairs or somehow associated with w

this was over a former officer convicted on corruption with the sentence starting today for officer fermingercers. a total of 13 officers are under investigation. during the news conference today the chief will answer questions looking into another case involving the altering of evidence at the crime laboratory with drug testing in 2010 shut down when criminalist admitted she stole cocaine for personal use forcing the prosecutors to dismiss a thousand cases and an audit is expected to reveal if there are more problems. >>> thank you. san francisco police are try to identify the suspect in a vicious unprovoked attack on a homeless man. surveillance video shows the man hitting the victim on the head with a metal pipe and walking away. it happened on wednesday night and the rim is still in critical condition. we will have more on the victim who is well-known and well liked in the neighborhood coming up at 6:00 a.m. >> a man accused of pushing another man in front of a train faced attempted murder and assault and battery pushing another man if front of the train during a fight on the civic center