my name is tammy bryant i'm a resident of district 5. i'm really here to talk off the cuff. i want to express some concerns i'm having. i read a post on facebook from the mission police collaborative about the incident at balboa last week. i am concerned about it. i under, a friend of mine's son was the victim of what i feel was the victim of police -- bad policy. basically what i heard is that police -- there's classrooms pointing guns at student witnesses. i know that students were questioned about their parents and in this carrying i know that an isn't person who was not even a witness just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time was taken out at gunpoint. apparently his image has been in the media. i thought youth were protected from being revealed. so again, i know police are in a difficult situation and we want to keep everybody safe but i want that balboa incident to be looked into because i'm not happy as a parent. i'm here because that incident on muni the other day. i'm very troubled by it. i watched something very, very violent and i understand that th

my name is tammy bryant. seiu 1021 steward, and delegate. i'm here because i worked for the city five years and witnessed firsthand constant discrimination against my black colleagues. seen it in the hiring or the lack thereof. in the hiring, many black workers are not getting their foot in the door. seen it in the black of promotions from my black colleagues. seen the eligible list with names of qualified colleagues who do not get the promotions they applied for. not only is it wrong for my colleagues and right for the decent livelihood, but bad for the public they serve. do not staff the agency for what they serve, and lack of delivering the best service possible to the public. my agency treats their jobs as a career path stepping stone, they do not value delivering the best service possible, my own friend who is black was not fairly fired. she lost her job, a young mother of two. as stated earlier, this discrimination results in a lack of quality services and in the settlements that keep costing the taxpayers money due to inept management