we were moving in the right direction until malara has pushed in every way she can to force the approval of tasers. not once has melara stated she was open to listening to the public. all the efforts to build trust would be seen as hypocritical if you fail in your duty to fully implement the use of force and report back at its efficacy. we want healing, but the truth is when someone you love is killed, there's not a day that is not darkened by that loss. justice and resultant change towards a compassionate approach towards our most vulnerable at least gives the bereaved the knowledge to know that we are doing all we can to make sure it doesn't happen again. let us not be caught in intellectual minutia and not forget that over a thousand people have died from tasers. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm 70 years old. i was born and raised in this city. for a lot of you police officers who are sitting there, i was part of that source that got you as a police officer, because when i was first coming up, san francisco police department was lilly white. there were no blacks. there were