. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i am heather phillips on the eastern neighborhood cac. i am part of soma community for the last 16 years, and i am just so excited to see the work between the community, supervisors' office and planning staff to come together to look at what it takes to really direct these funds well to make sure there is community voice and appropriate accountability, and i really think the plan in front of you really looks at all of those factors and pushes forward a cac that is going to be representative of the community, going to make sure there is community voice in the infrastructure improvements in our district. we hope that you will move in forward today. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, planning commissioners. i am with you nighted player -- united players. i am in support. i am excited to continue the work of the fund. it was unprecedented the developer fees would stay in the community they were impacting. we are excited to see this work continue. soma has unfairly borne the brunt of the development and the results doesn't

commentator heather mcdonald claimed that racial bias in police shootings of african-american men is overstated. i want you to watch closely the reaction of the man sitting next to mcdonald. his name is phillipoth. >> also told we're living through an epidemic of racially bias the police shootings of black men. this too is false. a study published this august in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences is just the latest research undercutting the media narrative about race and police shootings. >> joining me now, phillip atiba goth, the man whose reaction in that hearing went viral. he's the co-founder of the center for policing equity. also joining, minneapolis police chief. welcome to you both. phillip, i have to start with you because first of all, you now have become a meme. your reaction is what we were all thinking of. what do you mean this is fake and all some sort of ploy? what were you thinking? >> we were in front of the senate judiciary committee. we had all been sworn in to tell the truth under penalty of perjury. so when i heard someone saying that it was overblown based on the research, being one of the people who was an author of that research and who was a reviewer