tonight, we'll be discussing officer joel babs. back in 2016 we did a press conference with officer joel backs after he witnessed numerous racist incidents at sfpd and reported them. recapping some of the alarming allegations. human resources determined that that was being targeted by the police department for taking a stance against racism. has a long history of corruption and anti-black racism including towards his employees and felecia jones. ms. jones works with the sheriff's department. today, officials objected no consequences and the recently proposed sheriff's department was approved but accountability measures related to the complaints by committee members as proposed budget. nationally and most racist in terms of arrest and use of force. what is the police commission going to do about this. such as that reported by joel pabs and allegations began. here we are seeing sfpd's claims about one officer addressing systemic racism throughout the department is reported by officer pabs. the police commission. please explain why th

tonight on the commission agenda is officer joel babs and back in 2017, we did a press conference and a press release with officer babs who a black veteran of the sfpd. officer babs filed a complaint against sfpd in the police commission in 2017 after retaliation he experienced from reporting racist incidents at sfpd. we want to share some of the alarming and in many cases officially substantiated allegations in that original 2017 babs complaint which is on the sf superior website. filed october 3rd, 2017. per that complaint, regarding the doj cops report we are discussing tonight lieutenant pain told officers during an october 2016 morning lineup, per page 8, quote, the doj cannot say the police are racist. they have to acknowledge the problems in the african american communities. also, quote, you are saying cops are racist but maybe plaques are out of control. they are murdering people at a higher rate. unquote. and quote, african american people commit more crimes unquote. this is a small sample of racist remarks reported. during that time warning a sergeant tom allegedly said quot

tonight, we'll be discussing officer joel babs.k in 2016 we did a press conference with officer joel backs after he witnessed numerous racist incidents at sfpd and reported them. recapping some of the alarming allegations. human resources determined that that was being targeted by the police department for taking a stance against racism. has a long history of corruption and anti-black racism including towards his employees and felecia jones. ms. jones works with the sheriff's department. today, officials objected no consequences and the recently proposed sheriff's department was approved but accountability measures related to the complaints by committee members as proposed budget. nationally and most racist in terms of arrest and use of force. what is the police commission going to do about this. such as that reported by joel pabs and allegations began. here we are seeing sfpd's claims about one officer addressing systemic racism throughout the department is reported by officer pabs. the police commission. please explain why the po