[cheers and applause] >> commissioners, and terry sanders with the in arrears foundation. i am a union and community organizer. i have known ross mirkarimi many, many years. he was one of the founding people to of create the reentry council. he speaks highly and often about the local job issues, helping to create jobs for disadvantaged neighborhoods. being a supervisor in district 5, going over there when they had some boxing matches, and the supervisor was there, but what i really want to talk about is our character assassination of a newspaper. it has vilified this person here every day, every day. it is news. distorted news, but it was news. i have got the news here. i have got the news here. look at it here. look at it here. sensationalism. i took a course in journalism. very distasteful, very ugly. it took him away from his family. how could you do that? and you sit in judgment? and he sat in judgment. it should be dismissed before it even goes any further, but would you have the courage to do that? would you have the courage to do that? you are talking about ethics.