major violence from the police in fact i would say no violence from the police at all we can see the cops the police are not advancing to the independence square which is literally two hundred meters away from here they're not advancing they're just basically what they're doing they're securing this ground here that the governmental quarter pushed the rioters from the scene and what they're doing the just securing it here now so they're quick clearly they're not intending to disperse the big protests the protests that the independence square the one which has been existing for several months already there we have rocks flying at the plant at the police again the protesters the rioters are back are back as we can see and there can also see another wounded person being carried it is getting violent again although this time it's quite clear that the violence is coming from the protesters from the rioters not from the police the police is merely protecting themselves we can see a moment of cocktail there on the ground as well. again most of cocktails are being thrown rocks are being thro

major violence from the police in fact i would say no violence from the police at all. that you saw that you saw now this was the first wave of a police state that hour ago we also saw a couple of those later on scuffles did happen to protest the police that you know are some of the. really love the election but generally we can say that there were no special being targeted and said we've got to get out just as we are expecting situation i think that's a cry for us today is a major horrific day of the national unity of the opposition called on hundreds of thousands of st we don't know how this is going to go to pretty much a monkey with a great situation it may explode any moment of course we hear him and we have a great friend to support you we're monitoring the situation as it travels. and exceed their steps to live from kiev aleksei thank you very much indeed for that so be careful there and we have to apologize for the quality sound of from kiev right now but let's now get more on the situation in a ukraine with mark he's a senior international relations lecturer an

park police really polices the park areas.e are the only in the city -- i put it this way, if you dial 911, it will be my phone that rings. >> what happens if something happens to a public official and they must go to the hospital? you have had many cases of that over the years. who is in charge the? >> it depends on who it is. if it is a protectee of the secret service, they would have support. if it is a state department -- the metropolitan police is the only agency that can investigate. walking a foot beat, you learn how to develop sources, how to use information. you learn how to leverage relationships. that is the key. if people in the community trust you, they will tell you when there are things that are happening that are not yet crime so you can intervene. they will tell you about how to do it. >> why did you a couple years ago give a commencement address at a high school in 2010? >> my son, who i am so proud of, graduated there. that was the most stress i had been in my life giving a speech. a high school my son gradu

the police chief of new york.his is police commissioner bratton. >> right now we're in this kind of no man's land. i am accepting of this process and this move toward settlement because as police commissioner i need to be in a position to say to my officers, this is how you police constitutionally, how you do it respectfully, how you police compassionately. these are the guard rails that you have to stay within. .olice need that guidance i think the settlement will indeed provide that. the quicker we move down this road, the better for all concerned. >> you heard of boston accent. he was also police commissioner of boston. , you hear him saying he feels like there are no man's land. what are the cops being told today? >> they should be told there is a binding decision that prevents them from policing on the basis of race and requires reasonable suspicion, but that also starttes the command to talking to the police about what that means. the police commissioner said he started that process. i think in part there ar

police department to astro fee in size. we're having a police academy classes and re-growing the size of the department, so that's fully staffed. and we need to make sure and the voters need to make sure that we at the board and the mayor are held accountable so when we have a bad budget year whether it's this year or next year that we don't cut academy classes and reducing traffic enforcement which is the first thing to go in bad budget years. we need to be held accountable for that and have the political will to make sure that we get our police department the full staffing and then we need to hold the police department accountable to make sure that our staffing increases, we get consistent enforcement. that it's not just hot spots on based on complaints that we have consistent traffic enforcement throughout this city all the time because we know that if people don't get that there's much of a risk that they're going to get caught whether it's rolling through a stop sign or any other kind of unsafe behavior, people are not

bart police veteran.details tonight at the clock. 8 >> pam: we are going to shift gears for just a few moments. gary with top with interesting people to date on sports coming up some (male announcer): it's now time for gary radnich from the jack in the box sports desk. >> gary: frank gore a broken finger at sunday dangled and will need-circuitry to repair it. i did not stop him from making the force at second catch for 17 yds to keep the 49ers final drive allies. where was held to only 14 yds on 11 carries but did make it at that time the biggest play of the keen on that catch. gore would not participate in sunday's pro ball he will be replaced by the cowboys and denmark: marley. here is jim harbaugh >> gary: i am telling you harbaugh most of the season, he is kind of looking down at you but today he is charming as all get out thinking and the media and having a little fun with them as well. >> very eager to be neutral but i felt... that you have done it in a very professional way. i appreciate that. >> w

what we've seen is a series of explosions going off for police police are trying to clear out the squares you can see a lot of people we're going to be removing this way a sun it comes the cover and i can move to the left here yes huge crowds of people who are going to try to get away from those barricades that we were up there can i please moving in with actually police the moving in there very very. they're pushing back very forcefully here. hopefully we're going to be going to be fine where we are police have moved everybody off the barricades moved everybody away from where they were almost our case you know we're going to have to get inside now we're going to. we had to we had to get inside to get out of the way of what's going on this is that. the police have decided that they are they getting rid of and they're clearing out everything that was and those barricades this had been the position of such a a standoff between rioters and the police. or see the police deciding there that it was time to to put an end to that into into clear people out we saw a huge wave of people huge huge

that the police. so this is look this looks like yet another yet another retreat by the police.and the protesters are advancing again the rioters are bringing. about the police like they've done for several occasions already. they're charging they're charging again at the police as we can see throwing rocks all the time. she's actually your ships here reporting and we do apologize for some unstable connection from there which is understandable given the situation in kiev right now and here in the studio with me we have. our correspondent and. she is news that is very nice to see you both so first to. you do today's events. look like a serious escalation by well i have to i would say that we have to wait and see until the suppose the storm or the takeover of my done by police happens because really if you look at it right now the pictures yes are horrific but you have to understand it's largely because they're burning tires every time you board a tire it looks like you know all hell is breaking loose that is indeed not the case and i've just read on one of the reports that russia

that's a police surveillance center for police and firefighters. shaft sell tells the tribune the fliers are particularly hurtful. >>> u.s. lawmakers are very concerned about security at the sochi olympics after a newly- surfaced video that threatened an attack. about a month ago, a bus and train station were targets in a suicide bombing in the russian city of volgograd. these two men posted a video on a well-known jihadi website and they also talked about plans for the olympic games. >> they have morned some 30,000 armed troops down to the region. that tells you that their level of concern is great. but we don't seem to be getting all of the information we need to protect our athletes in the games. >> now, russia's president, vladimir putin, says he's gonna make sure the visitors are safe at the olympics. he talked about safety measures at the g-8 and g-20. >>> the torch has just reached the city of volgograd. that's where the suicide bombings killed more than 30 people last month. there are a lot of police present in the city. they have scattered

police arrive at the bank.accomplice who can see the bank from the parking lot gas station quickly gets into his car and drives away. the thief heads out of town in a blue cadillac. what he doesn't know is that one of the bank employees has been able to give police a description of his vehicle. >> the first responding officers got a description out over the air to surrounding departments. minutes later, officers from springfield township spotted a similar vehicle going northbound on 309. >> one headlight was out, which obviously would be grounds to pull the vehicle over. when he got behind the vehicle, he noticed it matched the make and model and general description of the cadillac involved in the armed robbery. >> the officer closely follows the vehicle along a series of lonely stretches of road. when the officer attempts to pull the cadillac over, the driver speeds off. suddenly the car turns into. the driveway of a home. the robber gets out. the officer commands him to stop. >> keep in mind, the officer was

going up police brutality is on the rise across america's local police forces are beginning to look more and more like small military combat units so how can we stop this brutality epidemic and bring sensible policing back to the united states all share my thoughts on that and it's really to . dramas that trying to be ignoring the. stories others for a few still noticing. the faces changing the world right now the. full picture of today's leaves no longer from around the globe. local. t.v. . i marinate join me on. that impartial and financial reporting commentary and for news and much much. only on the best and only. each team. is the good the bad of the very very trial a tissue is slowly ugly the good the anti go on top of the mode in general on tuesday thirty one retired american generals son a letter to president barack obama urging him to fulfill his promise to close down the guantanamo bay prison complex a group which included a former air force chief of staff and the head of the military's middle east central command said that one time alone does not serve america's interests as lo

we have the best police department in the country. i really believe that and i think that we have an opportunity to build on the things that we're doing well, that we're doing right and we can always think of how we can do those things better and that is the spirit in which i want to have this discussion today. so with that, i'll ask president a police commission mazzucco to make brief remarks and mr. president, police commissioners, thank you for being in this commissioner tonight. >> thank you supervise campos and thank you for being apart of this meeting with the board of supervisors and the police commission. we meet every wednesday here at city hall and once a month out in the community so we focus on policy. this is an issue supervisor campos that's going to involve enforcement. this is our fourth meeting with reference to pedestrian and traffic safety in the last six months. we're notified every time there is an injury accident or pedestrian or bicycle accident, we're note notified and the location and we've expressed our conce

they are at the police station and they are telling us what the police are doing right now. good morning, tara. >> police are active live searching for this boy and they will be refocusing their efforts at the high school and they believe they can return to classes and we do know that search dogs were out for about four hours and still no sign of tyler width wards where he usually waits for his dad yesterday he never showed up but around 7:00 last night, a janitor decided to call police. he has the mental capacity of an 8-year-old and he is a student. he is described as a white teen, 140 pounds with brown curly hair and a thin goatee. he was last seen wearing a black beanie and white shoes and purple any ten dough news. live from belmont, i am tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 morning news . san rafael police are trying to figure out what caused a deadly motorcycle crash last night. here is more with what they are saying about this crash. >> they can't say if excessive speed played a road but he was threaten from his bike. his bike was found further up the road. the accident hap

and there's a bigger chance that people are going to get arrested bit police, checked by the police there than other areas. >> even though drugs are being used in the suburbs, and they are. >> because basically the police roll is street crime. they're not going to into apartments of people smoking joints in the apartment unless they have evidence sufficient to build a case. it's much easier and clearer from the police perspective, when they see the crime, and they have information related to the crime, whe in the inner cit, the police demand that they do something about the problem. they are targeting the problem and arresting far more people. >> professor bushway, you were talking about the assumption that people are going to have a tougher life after they get arrested. and the understanding that we are making life tougher for one-third of our people. view. >> number one, we have to recognize that if you are convicted and you serve your time, you have paid your debt to society. and the fact that people have to continue suffering the consequences in terms of their access to jobs, to apart

police say the bomb was thrown at the wall of the police institute. four people have been killed in clashes between security forces and anti-coup forces. >>> plus a sign of hope for those caught in syria's very bloody war. opposition leaders sat across the table for the very first time since the war began three years ago. you're looking at live pictures where clashes continue. protesters had taken control over yet another government building, and the your piano yawns ion the european unionto . >> top of the morning to you all. devastating rain continues to pound portions of indonesia. this is a look at jakarta, this gentleman trying to make his way through waist-deep water. and this is the monsoon season, and we'll continue to have to deal with that devastating flooding. landslide have been triggered across the country. we'll continue to have to deal with that pattern over the next several days. the rain usually does end in march. take a look across the southwest we could definitely use some rain. high pressure is in control across the southwest, and

police believe aguillar turned the gun on himself. two federal law enforcement officials say the incident appears to be domestic in nature but howard county police have not confirmed that. david culver has more about the gunman but we begin first with derrick ward outside the columbia mall. derrick? >> reporter: as you said, there will be a news briefing from howard county officials. if it happens during the course of my report, we'll break away and bring you that news conference. if you take a look behind me, there's less of a police presence than their has been for quite a while. there is a command vehicle here. i can tell you at the other entrance there was commercial cleaning vehicles. this is about reclamation, reclaiming this mall for the customers and merchants. they are trying to get back to something approaching normal. there was a trickle of people returning the the mall to pick up their cars and returning to an adjacent office building. >> i was in the food court. heard a really loud noise. we >> reporter: the last briefing

lines and can see the one police line the other police line they're now securing the perimeter no major violence as we could see no. major violence from the police in fact i would say no violence from the police at all very dramatic scenes in the death of the police that is the students are again thanking their shields. to say whether this is for psychological effect or what they're celebrating the fact that they have pushed the protesters the rioters off the square we can see the cops the police are not advancing to the independence square which is literally two hundred meters away from here they're not advancing they're just basically what they're doing they're securing this ground here that the governmental quarter pushed the rioters from the scene and what they're doing the just securing it here now so they're quick clearly they're not intending to disperse the big protests the protests that the independence square the one which has been existing for several months already there we have rocks flying at the plant at the police again the protesters there. actors are back our back as w

this is a very good police department, howard county police department. they do their jobs very well. they are on the ground assisted by montgomery county police as well as suburban baltimore police as well as maryland state police. let's put that back up. >> we are posting minute by minute as we update throughout the afternoon. right now we are going to hear from county executive ken ohlman and chief of police phil mcmahon. we are sharing every detail we know right now. there are going to be things they are not going to be able to answer for you at this point. we expect to do another briefing at 4:00.fully we'll have more information at that time. >> thank you for being here. ken ulman, county executive here in howard county, maryland. i want to make a few points. first of all, we do have three confirmed fatalities. we want to send our thoughts and prayers to the family members of the victims, the loved ones of the victims. i want to thank the public of howard county here in columbia for their patience. the folks here at the columbia mall. for their pati

police found a man and his dog. the pit bull was known to be a violent animal and encountered him before. >> and the dog charged directly at one of the officers coming to bite him. he had nowhere else to go. the owner ever the dog was charged with trespassing and charged. they are investigating why he was on the property and if the dog was released intentionally on the officers. >>> and new images of jahi mcmath have been released, look at this posted by the uncle. it shows she is reacting to ice being placed at the bottom of her feet n december the teen was declared brain dead after complications during surgery. the family fought to keep her on life-support until they could find a facility to care for her. the location of the new facility has not been disclosed. >>> and after paying 43 years for a water supply that's never been used, the largest district may tap that keg. the weather could cause shortges -- shortages and the supply of water taken from the river. that would be taken from a # hundred million dollars

they stated their friends and family want you to call the police department if you see him. >> policeicers say they're looking for evidence of marijuana grow operations inside of a home. instead, they found something much more dangerous trip they found a homemade bomb making materials in a suitcase pripet he allegedly told police that he planned to blow things up and got the materials on-line pripet he was also charged with risking a catastrophe and other drug-related offenses the 19 year-old is an engineering student at penn state. those who hung out with him in high school say that the charges come as a surprise. >> he wanted to graduate from a good university. maybe this is some sort of copy that it had. >> a search for his address turned up that it was his home on this quiet street in san carlos. a man with what sounded like a russian accent their said that he needed to talk to a lawyer before he makes a comment. >> a birthday celebration ended in tragedy after the birth across the board friend is killed. it happened at a home on the foothills of east san jose. lowell baker lives

i want to discussion on bringing in police officers and special police and why they're making 38 percent of the money >> passerby cleave. >> police officers pefrgs or pension are not going up 38 percent i can talk to mr. lawrence after. things that are in the paper 5r7b9 also - let me finish >> and as far as expanding of the payroll when i spoke to the refer program the refers are unpaipd paid if retire members want to come back it's a tough time 80 for staffing we would like to augment staffing but the officers had to retire but main can still add value and some officers want to take advantage of that and those are private contractors that are not countered against any city dollars. >> mr. thank you, your honor man. >> actually, the cohesive addressed dh what i was going to address. i'll say that this it is our responsibility inform enforce the rules of this commission that's what i'm talking about rules. and i'm making comment on any one content but at the same time it's also our job to correct misinformation. and this is being broadcast all over san francisco but i need not do that be

an update from howard county police.te you, three people dead, four hurt from that shooting. it is believed according to police there was a single shooter, and he is among the dead. but unclear about the gender or even the ages of all three involved. cnn justice correspondent evan perez has new details joining us on the phone. what do you know, evan? >> reporter: fredricka, again, preliminary information. we are told by sources that it appears to be a domestic dispute situation that led to the shooting. the shooter entered and apparently shot a woman and a man, and then turned the gun on himself and killed himself, is what we're told from the early reports at the scene. again, the authority are still working the investigation to try and verify all of this stuff, but the early indications, again, that it appears to be a domestic dispute that led to this. as you said just now, the howard county police have also indicated that the shooting other k occurred in, i guess, a clothing store called zoomies, which is, caters to sk

i do have faith in the police department. if you can't have faith in the police where would we be, but your department, your officers -- they can't do their job if you don't give them the tools and it's to you to give the tools to do the enforcement. there is stuff you can do. these guys are texting. texting is part of the business model and i think that's why the accident happened the other night. a witness said he told the police he had the phone in his lap, probably to avoid detection, and probably to text on the dash and it's one thing you can do. your officers smart. they can recognize it even though there is no address. we recognize who they are and your officers can recognize who they are as well. i am really disheartened. we are tired of getting passed around from agency to agency. this is not the jurisdiction. we're not clear about the insurance standards are for the vehicle of the city and county of san francisco doesn't know because the puc won't give the information. it's under lock and key that uber and others sa

police officers from all over the bay area are filling in for members of the bart police force. they are stepping in to patrol the trains and bart stations so bart police can be at this morning's funeral. the officers will be on diet until 7:00 tonight. this morning there will be a special tribute to the fallen bart police officer at his old high school. sergeant smith graduated from monroe classic high school in 1989. faculty members and students will gather in front of the school around 9:00 this morning to pay tribute to sergeant smith. the ceremony will take place at the same time the funeral motorcade is on its way to castro valley. make sure you stay right here with us all morning long. we will have complete team coverage of this morning's funeral. we will also live stream from this morning's funeral on our channel 2 website beginning at 8:00. >>> democrats home the death of a santa rosa den -- it requires that bb and pellet guns be clearly painted bright colors to help police distinguish them between real guns. the proposal which was introduced following the shooting deat

with the police officers and so i feel like when you have police? school, it puts the fear in children that have had something traumatic like that happen to them and the students should not have to face the police and the police are here to protect in the service and we should not be scared to come to them to the things that we need. and the mlu needs to be mandated. mandatoried and not recommended. thank you. >> good evening. >> i am here to speak about the mlu between the san francisco and the san francisco police department, this mlu has been the youth commission's priority and i am proud that we have a chance of seeing it signed. and the last sfpd, sfusd, mlu expired in 2011, and they have been advocating for a new one and the mlu provides guidelines for the school discipline and police activity. on school campuses as well as sro training. when we are young, we are taught that we should aim for the stars and reach our full potential and you may be familiar to the fact that the students in the san francisco unified school district feel uneasy abo

live in los gatos, here is more on what police are saying about it this morning. >> reporter: police say since this happened they have increased patrols in this area. it happened in the strip mall in between a dance studio and next door to a pizza part lore. -- parlor. on monday afternoon, a woman was walking when a man approached her and punched her in the face. she fell to the ground and was treated by emergency workers called to the scene. the suspect ran towards hardwood and the assault appeared to be random but it sounds similar to a recent dangerous trend which is referred to as the knock out game where they try to punch unsuspecting people. these incidents have been happening throughout the country and they don't know was somebody taking part here? not yet. they move he has a slender build, he has short brown hair, bluejeans and a white baseball cap backwards and police have searched the area for surveillance video and they are didding anybody with any information on this case, perhaps any video if you have any to give police a call and they are looking for any tips or leads i

police will update us again at 4:00. >> during the news conference with the chief of police, there were couple of questions posed which proved to be revealing. one was did any law enforcement engage the shooter? did law enforcement fire the weapons? the chief said no. then another question was, was the suspected gunman dead when police arrived? the answer was yes. i suppose there are two possibilities here, murder/suicide or somebody else managed to grab a gun and kill him. are you getting any additional information on that? >> we asked if this was a domestic situation. somebody comes to the mall with a purpose to shoot specific people for some domestic reason. police chief said they can't comment on that because they are still investigating. as far as how the gunman died, our best investigation they told us the person they believe is the gunman was found dead on the floor with a gun and ammunition near him. we believe that, and the police said their working assumption is that person killed himself or herself. that's what the police came upon when they arrived on the scene. >> very sad

we provide police services through 10 b for oracle. moscone center there the numerous conventions they have through their own services they hire us for those events. supporting events in the city baseball and the world series all-star games and football at least 8 home games unfortunately they're going down to santa clara. successor games down to candle stick park and not to mention the various runs and the data breakers and swimming events our marine unite is taxes out along with the other police services. we have strictly the treasure island music they require additional services and they seek us out. private weddings and parties venues and store oakland maritime support services and product releases they call us for additional services. how does the process work any person can call our unit and ask for our services and we'll give them american people estimate. the construction as i mentioned earlier through the permitting there mta they make their requirements based on their estimate and size of the project as to how it is going to

police headquarters in oakland. you can see all of the police officers gathering now milling around preparing some have come from around the country. just about a half-hour from right now, they will be getting into b.a.r.t. police cars and then drive to castro valley. speaking of castro valley, we're live there as well. these are live pictures. the funeral for police sergeant tom smith will begin here in a couple of hours. sergeant smith was shot and killed last week by a fellow police officer in a tragic accident in dublin. the public funeral begins at 10:00 this morning at the neighborhood church of castro valley. make sure you stay right here with ktvu "mornings on 2" for the next 90 minutes for our team coverage. >>> 7:34. in developing news from san francisco, police are stepping up their search for a pit bull involved in an attack at golden gate park. ktvu's tara moriarty joins us live from where the mauling occurred. and tara, you say there is a warning for those who live in the area. >> reporter: that's righ

. >> the police chief holds a police conference on a shooting that killed sergeant tom smith in the line of duty describing him as an officer and a family man, the first killed in the 42-year history of the transit police department. >> the news conference is shedding new light on the life and work of the bart police officer accidentally killed by a colleague. >> we have coverage and matt keller is at the apartment where the shooting happened in dublin. first though, to amy hollyfield at bart headquarters. amy? >> yes, it was a somber press conference with the bart police chief choking up several times. the department did release a new picture we want to show you of sergeant tom smith killed while serving a search warrant yesterday afternoon in dublin. the chief described him as having a can-do attitude and was a happy family man. he leaves behind a wife and daughter we have if you details about what happened at the apartment yesterday. there were a total of eight officers there, five detectives from the bart police department and two uniformed officers from bart police and an officer fr

police and dublin police as well. this is the park sierra apartment complex in dublin where this all happened around 2:00 this afternoon. the apartment where the officer was shot is in the back of the complex. so this is as close to the scene as we can get. the identity of the officer who died has not been revealed but we learned that he had more than 20 years of experience. and the b.a.r.t. officer that shot him had more than 10 years experience. to recap what happened at 2:00 this afternoon we're told that at least four b.a.r.t. police officers opened the apartment of a man on probation. that man was wanted for several robberies that had happened on b.a.r.t. property. that's why b.a.r.t. police were doing this probation search. that man turned out to not be home but the police were doing an active search of his apartment when one of the officers accidently fired his weapon. the single gunshot struck one of the b.a.r.t. officers in the apartment. he died from his injuries at the hospital. now his identity is not bein

police officer. sergeant thomas smith shot and killed by a fellow b.a.r.t. officer during a probation check at an apartment complex in dublin yesterday. a 20-year veteran of the force. >>> governor brown will deliver a state of the date address. he's expected to talk about the budget and drought concerns. >>> syrian government is meeting with the opposition for the first time this morning since the start of the violent conflict. secretary of state kerry and the head of the united nations joined several other countries at conference in switzerland. head of the syrian opposition says the purpose of the conference is to set up a transitional government. secretary of state kerry says the current syrian president will have no place in a transitional government. >> there is no way, no way possible, in the imagination that the man who has led the brutal response to his own people could regain the legitimacy to govern. >> syria's foreign minister says no one has the right to remove assad from power except sy

the police at all. we can see the crowd for the police are not advancing to the independent flat which is literally a two hundred meters away from here they are not announcing that bad just basically what to do and thus securing this got me a bit too big of a metal quarter to push the righteous from the scene. and what they're doing they're just getting in here now so that quickly added that not intending to disperse the big protest the protest at the independence square the one which had existed for several months already. that would never sign that the plaque at the police again that the protests of the writers are back are back as we can see in them can also see another wounded person being carried. it is getting violent again all day this time it's going to have doubts. the violence is coming from the protesters on the ride is not from the police the police is merely protecting themselves we can see a molotov cocktail there on the ground as well the gun molotov cocktails are great on drugs are being

police have not yet released the name. gunman, but today said his bag held what they called crude attempts to make closive devices out of fireworks. as scott tompson tells us those in the mall as the shootings happened described it as terrifying. >> i saw three people shot fall. everybody ducked to the ground and i heard more than ten shots are police are investigating the fatal shooting that left three dead in a columbia, maryland mall according to police a man carrying a shotgun walked to the skate shop and killed two employees a man and woman and then himself. >> we do not know what caused the shooting exempt incident. >> reporter: when the gunshots rang out, customers and employees scattered or took shelter wherever they could. >> so i grabbed at least a kid that i could see and ran into sears to keep them safe. >> everyone was scared. it was pretty chaotic at the time, you know? people running by the store and people ducking down on the floor, in the candy store. >> reporter: at least five other people were treated fo

i was privileged to be a founder among the founders of the police hostage negotiation team. ultimately regarded as probably the first, one of the best in the country, this man was key to it until 2005, as as leader and he served one term and that is indicative of being regarded by his peers so this is for people like bill kidd and he really up to the highest credit upon this san francisco police department and upon himself, so it was my pleasure to serve with people like bill ki--. >> thank you. >> thank you, commander, inspector kidd? thank you very much, it is a rare opportunity when you get an aware for doing what you love but for better or worse when the events took place and we started a event in san francisco and we one of several people who chose to get involved and became a fascinating subject to me and we had many occasions in our history in san francisco, where things were a little tense in terms of how things were going to come out but we found that not only was it a great idea, but that the people like commander clap and others were able to transmit their experie

lines and it's not exactly reaching the police but explodes right near the police lines and the police is responding by throwing back flash bangs and sound grenades as well as some reports suggesting that they were using rubber bullets against the crowd this is basically the people's reaction there are two words a set of laws which was adopted by the country's parliament which they believe to be a repression of democracy which they believe to be oppressive on many actions protests actions can be punished with a prison sentence and as usually happens and given for the last at least two months or so people gathered for a meeting on for a rally on sunday which escalated to violence even worse than what i saw and what we all saw in december not far away from here at the pro. administration building where the police. actually happening on the other side of the police structure. there is a chance and this is the word on the ground that the police actually use this riot as a pretext to storm. the barricades which. gives them a valid reason according to the new legislation. so far it's still i

police department. aided and abettedy and i went out and commissioner joseph went out as well and nothing to report is great as far as i'm concerned >> can you sky where you went. >> all over the place. >> any other comments if not open this up for public comment. any public comment on the director's report? come on up and please state your name and speak into the microphone. >> good evening i'm john and a 26 resident of san francisco and sit on the veterans affairs. i also sit on the board of directors san francisco and i want to echo the comments of audrey you can have anomaly let but not break the egg shells so give us a relief if you're going to mandate something >> any other any public comment? ? all right. any public comment? is now closes. we'll move on to item 4 which is police department comments and questions >> hello commissioners. i'm steve from the center station. just as the commission or staff has talked about new years eve it was relatively quote we had enough resources out and saw less