i found this quote from kristen wong when victor departed she wrote people would call for victor. the bay guardian called him an advocate so far all people. at asian law caucus he advocated a case against police officers because this gentleman held a stick and refused to let cal's wife while cal laid had found on the pavement and died he filed a national class action the 18996 reform law and filled the class-action lawsuit against public housing for failing to defend asian-americans. and in 2004 when the police shot a couple of asian-americans victor pulled together the advocates to be on the forefront to be having this put so what the front and the police officers were trained again. victor was one of the first asian-americans that joined the asian-american fight at a time it was hard to get asian-americans involved. he also drafts the brief on behalf of the hiv community for marriage equality but before all this work victor joined the last public defender's office working homicide cases. when after 15 years as a public deferred he became a district attorney. he responded to many

that's not to took anything away from victor wong. if the roles were referred i would ask that same question. it's also important supervisor mar's mentioned this i was especially impacted by the communications i've received from various women's groups about the importance of having women in those positions and especially a woman of color. so i will be voting against the motion not because i have anything against the candidate the other candidate should be on the police commission to the extent the mayor can fulfill that maybe both on the police commission but i believe we should reward good work and when someone has done everything asked of that you should honor that and revote them in >> supervisor yee thank you president chiu. >> as you see from the discussion both candidates are individuals that want to be on the commission are highly quality. we went through this at the rules committee listening to speakers after speaker and looking at all the e-mails and documents there is no doubt in my mind that both victor and angela i'm sorry

start that i should welcome tonight, our newest commissioner, and ask him to stay a few words, victor wong is our newest commissioner and he brings a wealth of experience with reference to criminal justice and social justice, and commissioner wong who lives here in san francisco with his wife and children, started his career early on as a lawyer and assistant public defender in los angeles county where he served for four years and from there he moved on and worked as a civil rights attorney with the asian law caucus here in san francisco and with another civil rights organization, the apsxi, from there, he moved to the san francisco district attorney office where for seven years he served as a prosecutor and so he is kind of a combination of myself, commissioner loftus and turman and dejesus was a former public defender and a balanced background with significant experience with civil rights in the community and we honored to have commissioner wong join the commission and if you could say a few words about yourself. >> thank you very much, i think that you have pretty much covered my histor