. >> greg suhr has a challenge. he has to reform his organization. >> the public's trust in us has been damaged to be objective and fair and respond and do our job for all people. so we need to be about winning that back. >> the challenge is to restoring public trust. >> welcome to kqed "newsroom" i'm thuy vu. on tonight's show we will examine the stand also that have shaken the public trust in the san francisco police department. you will hear from chief greg suhr and attorney george gascon. >> i was appalled shocked and astonished that in this day and age something like this could happen in the san francisco police department. >> sergeant yulanda williams is a 17-year veteran of the san francisco police department and president of officers for justice which represents african-american policemen and women. earlier this year she learned her name was mentioned in a series of racist text messages exchanged between fellow officers. >> i take it was not a personal attack on me but on all women of color. >> at first four

ahora el jefe de la policia greg suhr tambien expreso el mismo deseo... adachi/defensor publico afirma el defensor publico que han identificado al menos 120 casos similares ... y su oficina va a revisar hasta 10 anos de records para poder aplicar justicia.. greg suhr/jefe de la policia por su parte el jefe de la policia dice que en total son 8 los oficiales que estan siendo acusados de participar en estas ofensivas conversaciones y ahora sera la comision policial la que determine si seran suspendidos, accion que el apoya. se pudo conocer no obstante que un oficial ya renuncio y hay otro que podria pedir la baja hoy. otros dos fueron reasignados a otras actividades y los cuatro restantes enfrentaran medidas menos severas aunque no se especificaron cuales son estas. alguno de los textos comparaban a un abogado afroamericano con un animal, en otro se referian de forma peyorativa a los homosexuales la proxima reunion de los comisionados con el jefe policial sera el 8 de abril, y alli se presentara el caso y posiblemente se tomara una decision... andres live p

. >> i've been here a minute george gascon and chief greg suhr the police department even bill brad tolde i said there's why are we still seeing this guy on the force greg said he's going to fire him honestly it is a little bit repugnant i talked to a cop on 6 the street idle charter it means something when i come up here and use the n word it means a lot my best friend is black he calls me a honkey honestly commissioners 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 t

>>greg suhr/s.f. police chief--their conduct is incompatible with a police officer and i believe it causes them to all below the minimum qualification that's required >> reporter:another two officers who the chief says took part in just a single texting event that did not rise to the level of the other 8 officers will plead their case before the police commission and 4 other officers who took part in a single texting event that violated department policies but was not hate speech will be disciplined by the chief but not fired. other racist or homophobic officers on the force. >> you have to assume there look at their personal history questionsaires to see if there is some commonality occurring, if we hired someone , we should have hired, we'll also do a random sampling of officers who are not in trouble to see if that same things occurs because we don't want to get it wrong. >> reporter:the chief says the a racial profiling class and will have additional training for officers. >>what's the problems wi

. >> stanley roberts: i have an exclusive sit down with steve greg suhr of the san francisco police chief. that's coming up at eight 7 what's that thing? i moved our old security system out here to see if it could monitor the front yard. why don't you switch to xfinity home? i get live video monitoring and 24/7 professional monitoring that i can arm and disarm from anywhere. hear ye! the awkward, teenaged one has arrived. switch to modern security. add xfinity home for $29.95 a month and lock in your rate for 2 years. plus save up to 20% on your home owners insurance. call 1-800-xfinity today. >> catherine heenan: ahead at 8 axing tough questions of san francisco's police chief stanley roberts will have an exclusive interview and a bay area police officer accused of behaving badly what he why he was arrested and charged with doing. and there is a jolt to an east bay school meeting to confront a board member accused of discrimination. >> reporter: we have hot weather coming later this week i'll have the forecast coming female narrator: for over 60,000 california foster children a pair of s

. >>> in san francisco police chief greg suhr says it makes him sick what happened and now he's coming down hard on officers who sent and received racist and homo phobic text messages. ktvu's david stevenson tells us a captain and seven others are being suspended and the chief is recommending that the chief fire them. >> reporter: chief greg suhr says the case is sickening. >> even talking about it now it's just sickening. >> reporter: 14 cops in all were investigated. >> they references to white supremacy. repeated use of the n word, talked about burning crosses. >> reporter: suhr says eight including a captain sent messages sickening enough to warrant immediate suspension and firing. >> certainly to have a member as high ranking as a captain was particularly disheartening. >> reporter: the text surfaced a couple of weeks ago after a former officer was sentenced under federal corruption charges. an officer is quitting. >> michael salas is announcing that he will be resigning. >> he understands that the texts are incompatible with continuing his work as a san francisco police officer.

kron-4's stanley roberts spoke to san francisco police chief greg suhr. one on one. about the spike in personal property burglaries in the city. head to our website to watch the video. that you'll see on on kron -4. coming up. a dangerous discovery in a popular brand of baby food. leads to a major recall. a little girl attacked on the street. while alking with her mother. details on the suspect. gary radnich>>: coming up later in the broadcast we head sports reporting on the giants and the warriors up, their opponents and when it will be facing them. postseason talk later on this broadcast. pam moore>>: san francisco police say, a man attacked a 5- year-old girl. as she walked in the marina district this morning with her mother. the seemingly unprovoked attacke happened at the corner of octavia and union. according to police, the girl was walking past a homeless man with her mother, when the man allegedly grabbed the girl's neck, lifted her up and pushed her into a wall. residents were surprised to hear about the assault. >> :i think that's cruel >> :i'm very shocked

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chief greg suhr is holding a press conference this afternoon. we'll have more on his response tonight at 5:00 and 6:00 here on kpix 5. live in san francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. >>> 147 people are confirmed dead in an attack at a university in kenya. masked gunmen told students yesterday they were from al- shabab then singled out nonmuslims and shot them. they also took hostages in a dormitory as they battled troops and police. security forces killed the gunmen after about 13 hours. the campus where this happened is less than 100 miles from somalia where al-shabab is based. >>> a group of hostages who survived a terrorist attack at a paris supermarket are suing french media. they say news stations put their lives at risk by broadcasting the location of the siege on live tv. one network had revealed that the six victims were hiding from a gunman in a refrigeration room. the supermarket attack happened two days after a gunman shot up an office of the magazine charlie hebdo in paris. >>> 5:07. >>> iran's hardliners are criticizing a tentative nuc

san francisco police chief, greg suhr said the situation ing. >> it makes me sick to talk about. >> surh announced the conclusion of an internal investigation sent by officers. 14 cops in all were investigated. >> they made references to white supremacy. the n word. talked about burning crosses. >> suhr said eight sent messages sickening enough to warrant immediate suspension and firing. >> certainly to have a member as high ranking as a captain was particularly disheartening. >> the texts surfaced a couple weeks ago after ian furminger was corrupted -- >> he will resign from the san francisco police department. >> attorney, tony represents a 16 year veteran and michael, a 23 year vet who already resigned. >> he understands that the texts are incompatible with continuing his work as a san francisco police officer. >> now chief suhr says the texts sent by his other officers, including one police sergeant don't warrant immediate firing. on potential discipline. at 6:00, we'll talk about the measures being called for today to weed out alleged racist cops in the department. frank, gasia. >>

police chief greg suhr spoke at a police commission meeting last night.wo of the eight officers involved have already resigned and a third promised to step down. he wants the other officers fired and says they should never have been allowed on the force. >>> a bill that would force most parents to vaccinate its children cleared the first hurdle. passions high yesterday during the committee hearing there at the capitol yesterday. people wary of the side effects of vaccinations rallied outside with robert f. kennedy, jr., as one of their leaders. >> we ought to have policies that encourage full vaccination, full coverage, but that's not going to happen until we have safe vaccines. >> the only child exempt from the law would be those with health problems. the bill still has to pass two more committee votes before heading off to the assembly. >>> time now 5:39. each year about a quarter of americans wait until the last minute to file tax returns. they probably owe money, that's why. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger joins us with some tips to help th

the san francisco police chief greg suhr is asking for 7 officers to be fired for sending or responding to homophobic text messages. we have the reaction. >> for them to say those type of things, shame on them. >> reaction on the streets of the castro to the scandal that rocked the sfpd. racist homophobic texts exchanged between cops. >> it's just part of reality, i guess, and part of the law enforcement culture. i'm not sure there's a solution. >> chief greg suhr wants seven police officers to be fired for sending or responding to offensive texts he called reprehensible. >> we cannot have this in san francisco, and we have to do everything to the best of our ability to root it out and address it. >> san francisco naacp president, amos brown, said the texts reflects a bigger problem in the department. >> in terms of attitude, racism, and unjust practices. san francisco is -- >> it's mean spirited. >> jennifer with "our family coalition" a resource for lgbt families believes his disappointing but doesn't reflect on the entire police department, but could be a turning point. >> the silver

mazzucco commissioner hwang commissioner melara we have quorum madam president also is the chief chief greg suhr. >> do we have a representative from the office of complaints. >> take a look around. >> welcome everyone to the mark 25 police commission i see a lot of folks from the neighborhood wanted to well, you all we had this meeting every fourth wednesday we go out to a different station we're going to talk about what we do we don't do that normally in city hall but we have have day jobs and people that care about public safety so thank you all for being here i'm going to start off by telling my commissioners he at the conclusion of that meeting saddling i'll ask we adjourn in member of santa fe police officer michael johnson was killed traeven yesterday i'll ask we adjourn and ask my colleagues to please introduce yourselves and tell the folks a little bit about what you do. >> starting with commissioner hwang i'm i'll been a civil right the reason the deputy city attorney for the legal outreach that does work in 0 human trafficking and elderly abuse. >> commissioner mazzucco a former assis

he calls me a honkey honestly commissioners 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 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

i'm not sure that there's a solution. >> reporter: chief greg suhr wants seven police officers to be fired for sending or responding to offensive texts he calls representhensible. >> we cannot have this had in san francisco, and we have to do everything to the best of our ability to rout it out and address it. >> reporter: san francisco naacp president amos brown says the texts reflect a bigger problem in the department. >> in terms of attitude racism, and unjust practices, san francisco is ferguson. >> it was really mean-spirited. >> reporter: jennifer grant with our family coalition, a resource for lgbt families, believes while the scandal is disappointing, it doesn't reflect on the entire police department but could be a turning point. >> the silver lining to this is it's coming out. there will be more trainings. people are talking about it. all those conversations result in progress and learning and moving forward. >> reporter: meantime, the scandal could jeopardize court cases that relied on testimony from the officers linked to the ugly texts. a review is under way n. san franc

chief greg suhr is holding a press conference this afternoon. we'll have more on his response tonight at 5:00 and 6:00 here on kpix 5. live in san francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. >>> new this morning, daly city police are looking for two men who allegedly attacked and robbed a cab driver. it happened last saturday around 3 a.m. these are photos of the suspects. police say one man paid the driver and then punched him and took his money. >>> no injuries for the man who was inside an oakland home when it collapsed right on top of him. crosby bubba powell is homeless but does odd jobs that keeps the neighborhood clean along 46th street. the house was being renovated but the home owner let powell live there to keep swatters away. he was napping at the time of the collapse yesterday. >> i was asleep and the house came down. >> oakland firefighters confirmed the framing of the house had weakened and it's a total loss. >>> popular bike sharing program may soon be rolling into the east bay. bay area bikeshare will expand to oakland, berkeley and emeryvi

yesterday when i attended the opening of the new public safety building, police chief greg suhr what is able to announce that they will be able to provide sign language interpretation to the public using our real remote interpreting, they are rolling out this service and the other office is of course the mayor's office on disability and also the county clerk, department of elections, recreation and parks, mayor's office on housing and community development t human services agency, office of citizens complaints and department of emergency management. in fact the department of emergency management is actually talking with the media and television stations to see if we can patch asl interpretation into their television feeds as a tool during emergencies to be effective in our communications. there is a lot of really exciting things happening with video remote interpreting. speaking of emergency management team. tomorrow is the 109th anniversary of the san francisco earthquake. i'm going to be at the fountain at 5:00 a.m.. if anyone would like to join me. i want to acknowledge that the c

they haven't done anything and the police haven't done anything and i think it's convenient that greg suhr left and heard the important things that people had to say and he took charge of this case and ignored it -- >> thank you. >> and i think the police department is shameful -- >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> next speaker. >> hi. i am christopher hite and with the san francisco public defender's office and chair of the racial justice community and san francisco public defender's office. what i see is occurring right now in san francisco and plays off of reverend brown's comments there is a felonyization occurring in the african-american community and the african-american community areas of san francisco and that is what is happening with the criminal justice system in regard to blacks in san francisco, and the problem is really focused on those areas. that's where you see the explicit and implicit bias and that's where we see it as public defenders and what we did with the plan for reform and you have a copy of it and i focus in the discussion and what i think as councilmembers you shou

. >> police chief greg suhr will suspend three officers today who have been accused of sending racist and homophobic text messages and another officer has we resigned. 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

. >> reporter: and this afternoon, chief greg suhr will formally recommend some of the punishments for the officers involved in the racist text scandal. a. >> there will be suspensions and i'll be referring people for termination. >> reporter: after a slew of derogatory and anti-gay text messages were sent between more than a dozen san francisco police officers as new allegations of racism emerge from a defendant who rode with one of the officers in question. >> i was terrified. scared. calling me -- [ censored ] this monkey right here, these monkeys have nothing to live for. you monkeys have no home, no upbringing. >> reporter: that's a recording of a client represented by public defender jeff adachi. >> this raises huge red flags for the police department in general. >> reporter: so he is bringing at least 1,000 cases going back 10 years back to court. >> because the evidence of these racist texts affect the credibility of the officers. any case where a question was raised as to whether the officer was telling the truth has to be looked at again. >> reporter: and it's not just local

. >> that is greg suhr talking termination for 14 officers and investigations for six others for the well documented texts of 2011 and 2012. >> i have suspended them. they have been referred to the commission. >> prosecutors released him as part of a bail hearing for the former officer, convicted of corruption in december. since then a reign of criticism hit the department from practically all sides, including reverend amos brown who said they began with not enough racial sensitivity during police training. >> we're becoming an invisible people of the city. and it was done by public policy >> the president of the union says this should not reflect on the department. >> there is individual cases that need to be handled individually. they cannot be handled under one broad brush that every case is the same. >> maybe not in reality but in perception. >> it's not lost on me it's taken a major hit. >> beginning with random investigations of other officers in his department. wayne freedman abc7 news. >> today chief suhr addressed problems with dna testing at the police crime lab. the chief

chief greg suhr is recommending 7 officers be fired and an 8th already resigned. six other officers involved are still under review. the scandal could taint thousands of criminal cases. >> because the evidence of these racist texts affected the credibility of the officers, any case has to be looked at again. >> cases involving the officers as far as 10 years back will be reviewed. >>> a full confession and an apology from two south bay teenagers accused in the death of audrie pott. she is the teenager who took her own life after a sexual assault that involved cell phone images. kpix 5's sharon chin on the unusual terms of the surprise legal settlement. sharon. >> reporter: allen, this wrongful death case was headed to trial next week. but today, a deal. it's one designed to clear audrie's name and prevent a similar tragedy. the story made national headlines after audrie passed out at a house party in 2012. she was sexually assaulted. she awoke to nasty messages written on her body. there were also cell phone photos shared amongst some classmates at saratoga high.

police chief greg suhr says the results of the investigation into the text messages will be released later today. he didn't elaborate but suhr said he'll recommend several officers be fired and others suspended. the texts came to light last month during a federal corruption investigation into a former sfpd officer. the chief is expected to answer questions about a dna crime lab audit where a lab tech is acc e accused of altering some evidence. >>> this morning a homeless man is in the hospital with a serious head injury and police are looking for his attacker. the assault was caught on camera. we're not going to show you the actual attack but we will show you surveillance video leading up to it. you can see a man approaching the victims there and he hits him with what appears to be a pipe. the homeless man was knocked unconscious. he's a familiar face in the neighborhood, people know him as robert. we talked with a friend who just visited him in the hospital. >> we would take him to the shelter, we would get him food when he needed it, and we we'd buy him some shoes. >> friends say r

the district attorney launched an investigation independent of the police chief greg suhr's. in 2010. he says gascone should recuse himself from any investigations. >> i don't understand how he's not conflicted out of this. >> gascone says he shut the testing out immediately when learning of the scandal. he began an investigation. >> other people had been hired before me the conduct related me this is not about pointing fingers about fixing a problem. >> he says a team of experts will be on the panel of investigators looking into the crime lab. and we tried unsuccessful to contact him for an interview. >> we're getting a look at a woman accused a bizarre crime spree in mill valley. this is the mug shot. she face as tempted murder charges for setting a home on fire spray painting vulgar words next door, and drenching a woman with lighter fluid who confronted her. investigators say she had been to the home before and was obsessed with a man living there. >> former 49er quinn harris has been arrested in san francisco. he's been found unconscious after being involved in two hit a

. >>> reporter: even as san francisco police chief greg suhr said he was sorry -- >> i apologize to the community. >> reporter: -- the community did not hold back. >> i hope y'all fire every one of those seven police officers. >> all right now! >> and give them no benefits! they don't have the right, they don't deserve to be on this police force. >> commissioners terminate those officers on recommendation of chief suhr and do it now. [ applause ] >> reporter: this meeting, the first step in a process that could end in termination for a group of san francisco police officers caught sending racist and homophobic text messages. this san francisco officer reminded them of some of the words. >> silver backs, n words, monkey. my dedication and loyalty to this city is not respected. >> reporter: chief suhr says two of the eight officers have already resigned a third has promised to. the others are all suspended and chief suhr recommended termination. >> many of the speakers said that these officers never should have been police officers. and i agree. so part of what we're doing is going back a

recently got engaged so please welcome to speak today to us about the city cyber security efforts chief greg suhr, thank you, director. >> that was something, >> and he can argue about the pronouncation of his name if you like but not today. exactly, thank you for having me, to the public also. director moyer invited me to talk to you about cyber security and i think that we don't talk about it enough and i know that as we bring back the 300 officers and even explore some of the discussions right now about even making the police department larger than the 1971 as that may not be enough and the way that the city is growing and the things that are happening including technology, we are paying attention to this. one of the things that i am smart enough about and that i am smart enough to know that i am not smart enough about that is everything that is cyber and technology and to that end worked closely and i guess that is two years ago with special agent in charge, andy adelman of the united states secret service who are charged with cyber security nationally and we are one of only two cyber crimes

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smash and grab in cars greg suhr yes i mean that pretty bad oh yea auto burglaries are up quite a bit i know that when ab109 passed because of the jail overcrowding back in early 2011a lot of property they call low level offenders they were property criminals all got out at the same time the whole state started seeing an uptick in this property crime so it's a work in progress we make a lot of auto burglary arrest some of those folks in san francisco we like to get them on the right path so that their not committing more crimes but unfortunately with some of these guys it's just want they do so when that passed when that prop passed did that make it hard for your guys because these guys are out on the street again yea you know i mean they were going to get out anyway to get out at the same time the same day it created issues for law enforcement up and down the state tell me more about the high profile burglaries that are taking place in union square and what is the city trying to do about it or is there anything in the works so ah there was the one at patagonia we got a good break on

. >> that is greg suhr talking termination for 14 officers and investigations for six others for the well documented texts of 2011 and 2012. >> i have suspended them. they have been referred to the commission. >> prosecutors released him as part of a bail hearing for the former officer, convicted of corruption in december. since then a reign of criticism hit the department from practically all sides, including reverend amos brown who said they began with not enough racial sensitivity during police training. >> we're becoming an invisible people of the city. and it was done by public policy >> the president of the union says this should not reflect on the department. >> there is individual cases that need to be handled individually. they cannot be handled under one broad brush that every case is the same. >> maybe not in reality but in perception. >> it's not lost on me it's taken a major hit. >> beginning with random investigations of other officers in his department. wayne freedman abc7 news. >> today chief suhr addressed problems with dna testing at the police crime lab. the chief

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the district attorney launched an investigation independent of the police chief greg suhr's. in 2010. he says gascone should recuse himself from any investigations. >> i don't understand how he's not conflicted out of this. >> gascone says he shut the testing out immediately when learning of the scandal. he began an investigation. >> other people had been hired before me the conduct related me this is not about pointing fingers about fixing a problem. >> he says a team of experts will be on the panel of investigators looking into the crime lab. and we tried unsuccessful to contact him for an interview. >> we're getting a look at a woman accused a bizarre crime spree in mill valley. this is the mug shot. she face as tempted murder charges for setting a home on fire spray painting vulgar words next door, and drenching a woman with lighter fluid who confronted her. investigators say she had been to the home before and was obsessed with a man living there. >> former 49er quinn harris has been arrested in san francisco. he's been found unconscious after being involved in two hit a

. >> greg suhr has a challenge. he has to reform his organization. >> the public's trust in us has been damaged to be objective and fair and respond and do our job for all people. so we need to be about winning that back. >> the challenge is to restoring public trust. >> welcome to kqed "newsroom" i'm thuy vu. on tonight's show we will examine the stand also that have shaken the public trust in the san francisco police department.

>>smash and grab in cars >>greg suhr yes >> stanley:i mean that pretty bad >>oh yea auto burglaries are ab109 passed because of the jail overcrowding back in early 2011a lot of property they call low level offenders they were property criminals all got out at the same time the whole state started seeing an uptick in this property crime so it's a work in progress we make a lot of auto burglary arrest some of those folks in san francisco we like to get them on the right path so that their not committing more crimes but unfortunately with some of these guys it's just want they do >> stanley:so when that passed when that prop passed did that make it hard for your guys because these guys are out on the street again. >>yea you know i mean they were going to get out anyway but they weren't all going day when they all got out on the same day it created issues for law enforcement up and down the state >>tell me more about the high profile burglaries that are taking place in union square and what is the city trying to do about it or is there anything in the works >>so ah there was the one at pata