SF News Video: Antioch Police Now Have Excessive Force, Racial Profiling Scandal On their Hands Video of a Latino man who was not even suspected of a crime, yet received a thorough beatdown from Antioch police officers, is the latest dirty linen for a department already reeling from a racist text scandal and a federal investigation into their possible cocaine distribution.
SF News Alameda County DA Declines to Charge Alameda Cops In Death of Mario Gonzalez The Alameda police officers implicated in the April 2021 death of Mario Arenales Gonzalez will not face criminal charges, after the Alameda County District Attorney's Office announced a decision Thursday.
SF News San Francisco to Pay $504K to One-Legged Inmate Forced to Hop to Cell A federal jury has just awarded $504,000 to an inmate at the San Francisco County Jail who filed an excessive force lawsuit in 2018 over his mistreatment at the jail.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Speaks After High-Profile Defeat in Prosecution of Officer for Police Beating After losing the trial in the first use-of-force case brought against an on-duty SFPD officer, DA Chesa Boudin says “You can’t be scared to lose,” and is still prosecuting cases against five other officers.
SF Politics Judge In SFPD Use-of-Force Trial Balks at Prosecution's Request for New Court Date, Sends Clear Message to DA The judge in the trial of SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, a trial which ended Monday in a near complete acquittal, sounded less than patient with the District Attorney's Office on Tuesday when a request was made for a new court date.
SF News [Update] Jury Reaches Verdict, Acquits SFPD Officer on Three Counts for Use of Force, Deadlocked on One Count The jury in the historic trial of a San Francisco police officer for the excessive use of force used to detain a suspect reached verdicts on three of four counts on Monday, acquitting Terrance Stangel of the charges, but they remained deadlocked on a final count.
SF News Jury Enters Deliberations In SFPD Brutality Trial; Prosecution Argues Officers Didn't See Victim 'As Human' Deliberations began Tuesday in the historic trial of SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, who is charged with excessive use of force in a 2019 beating of a domestic violence suspect who was subsequently not charged with any crime.
SF News In Police Beating Trial, Officer Testifies That Police Declined to Interview Two Eyewitnesses The SFPD says Chesa Boudin buried an interview that would have absolved an officer in a police beating. But it turns out that officer had eyewitnesses asking to be interviewed at the scene, and wouldn’t talk to them.
SF News San Ramon Police Determine K-9 Attack on Suspect Was Justified, Outside Experts Call It 'Cops Gone Wild' An Uber driver had a K-9 dog sicced on him when he was 10 days late on a car payment, and while the San Ramon PD says the dog attack was justified, use-of-force experts call it a “hyperexaggerated and hysterical response.”
SF Politics Supervisors OK $700K Settlement for Police Beating Victim, In Case Where SFPD Is Basically at War With Boudin High drama unfolded Tuesday as the SF Board of Supervisors approved a settlement for a police beating victim, but the supervisors’ charged debate shows that major new battle lines are being drawn in the Recall Chesa Boudin campaign.
SF Politics SF's First Excessive-Force Trial Against a Police Officer Kicks Off Under Cloud of Controversy The trial of San Francisco Police Officer Terrance Stangel, the first involving an on-duty SF cop in which District Attorney Chesa Boudin has brought charges of excessive force and the first known trial of its kind in the city, began on Monday morning.
SF Politics DA Chesa Boudin Says SFPD Withdrawl From Investigation Agreement Is Political, Made Under Pressure From Police Union Embattled District Attorney Chesa Boudin continues to push back against his critics and those who want him recalled in an election this spring, and this week he's having to engage in a war of words with the police chief.
SF News Solano County Deputies Accused of Violently Arresting Black Woman For No Reason Body camera footage from two Solano County sheriff's deputies tells a far different story than they told in their official report, and an August 6, 2020 incident on the freeway in Dixon may now get investigated following a federal lawsuit.
SF News DA Boudin Files New Charges In Six-Year-Old Alley-Beating Case Involving Alameda County Cops Almost six years on from a brutal case of police brutality that was caught on surveillance video and witnessed by multiple people, the two former Alameda County sheriff's deputies are once again facing charges in San Francisco.
SF News Man Who Died While Alameda Police Had Him In Prone Position Compared to George Floyd The April 19 death of Oakland resident Mario Arenales Gonzalez while in the custody of Alameda police has garnered national headlines because it occurred just one day before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd under similar circumstances.
SF Politics SF Mayor London Breed, Sen. Alex Padilla, Others React to Guilty Verdict In Chauvin Trial Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty Tuesday on three counts in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd: second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
SF Politics SF Police Chief and District Attorney Insist They're Not Enemies, Chief Says They Don't Always Agree In a show of unity Wednesday on a live-streamed Zoom session, SF Police Chief Bill Scott and District Attorney Chesa Boudin discussed recent charging decisions implicating SF police officers, and the growing role of the DA's Independent Investigations Bureau.
SF News SFPD Releases 911 Audio and Body Camera Footage From Fisherman's Wharf Beating Two days after the DA filed charges against an officer for an October 2019 baton beating of a domestic violence suspect, the SFPD has released audio from the 911 call that led to the officers' arrival at the scene, as well as body-worn camera footage from the incident.
SF News Attorney for SFPD Officer Charged In Beating Says DA 'Can't Get His Facts Straight' The attorney representing a San Francisco Police officer whom District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged with assault and battery on Monday has shot back with a statement saying her client acted "lawfully" in the 2019 incident in question.
SF News BART Settles Case For $1.35M Involving Former Model Whose Face Got Slammed To Ground By Cops A very drunken St. Patrick's Day in 2014 turned into a incident of excessive force at the hands of BART police according to a lawsuit that was just settled by BART earlier this
SF News Video: Bloomingdale's Security Under Fire For Bloody Takedown Of Shoplifting Suspect Warning: video may be disturbing to some The use of force by private security at Bloomingdale's has come into question after video shows a bloody takedown inside the department store. On Thursday, customer
SF News Man Beaten By Plainclothes Officers For Riding Bike On Sidewalk Is Suing The City A photo posted by Travis Jensen (@travisjensen) on Nov 11, 2013 at 3:35pm PST A man who was viciously beaten over a year ago by three plainclothes San Francisco Police Department officers
