SF News Family Of Homeless Man Killed By SFPD Move To File Suit Against City The family of Luis Gongora, the homeless man shot and killed by SFPD in April of this year, is preparing to file a civil suit against the city. KRON4 reports that civil rights
SF News For The Nth Time, SFPD Says They'll Have Body Cameras Soon, Now By August 1 A version of the perennially delayed body camera program for officers of the San Francisco Police Department is expected to be implemented beginning on August 1 according to the Mayor's Office. Some skeptics
SF News SFPD Waits Until Late Friday To Identify Sergeant Who Shot Jessica Williams Vigil for police shooting victim Jessica Williams in the Bayview tonight. pic.twitter.com/kYqrjhUjOe— Lizzie Johnson (@lizziejohnsonnn) May 28, 2016 The SFPD sergeant who shot and killed an unarmed woman last week
SF News Ex-Police Chief Suhr Wanted To Quit Well Before Lee 'Asked For His Resignation' The resignation last week of (then) Police Chief Greg Suhr following an officer-involved shooting of a black woman in the Bayview was met with a wide array of responses. Supervisor Scott Wiener, for
SF News 15 Years Of Officer-Involved Shootings In SF, By The Numbers Greg Suhr, who resigned his position as the Chief of Police at the mayor's request last week, never fired his gun while on duty. That's common. The "vast majority" of San Francisco police
SF News Chief Suhr Cancels Appearance At Police Accountability Forum Over Security Concerns After a march on City Hall yesterday led by five protestors only consuming liquid calories to demand his removal, Police Chief Greg Suhr reneged on a planned appearance with Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'On The Hill,' A New Theater Piece About The Shooting Of Alex Nieto "How do you fight back? How do you reclaim your identity?” says playwright Paul S. Flores. “That’s what these kids are doing in this play." Flores just premiered a new theater piece
SF News Protesters Block Valencia Street After Police Cut Short Community Meeting Correction: An earlier version of this post ran under the headline "Protesters Block Valencia Street After Chief Suhr Cuts Short Meeting." Chief Suhr did not attend the meeting, and the headline was inaccurate.
SF News Two SFPD Officers Named In Shooting Of Luis Gongora The SFPD has identified the two officers involved in the April 7 shooting of homeless man Luis Gongora as Sgt. Nate Steger and Officer Michael Mellone, both veteran police officers who together shot
SF News Key Witness For City Says Alex Nieto Pointed Taser At Him And His Dog The tragic sequence of events that led to the death of Alex Nieto on March 21, 2014 got a new and weird detail added to it with the conclusion of witness testimony on
SF News Rookie Cop Fired 23 Shots At Alex Nieto, Thought Niners Jacket Was Gang-Related Rookie SFPD officer thought Alex Nieto may have been gang member because of red Niners jacket. #ABC7Now pic.twitter.com/StO0pHRxpi— Dan Noyes (@dannoyes) March 2, 2016 In the first witness testimony in
SF News Officers Fired On Alex Nieto As Many As 59 Times; Nieto Allegedly Fired Taser At Them Three Times As the civil trial begins in a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of San Francisco following the 2014 death of Alejandro "Alex" Nieto at the hands of SF police, some fresh details
SF News Civil Rights Trial Against City In Alex Nieto Shooting Begins Today A federal trial in the civil rights lawsuit against the City of San Francisco regarding the March 2014 shooting death of 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto is set to begin today, as the Examiner reports,
SF News DA Gascon Denounces 'Old Boys' Club' In SFPD As Department Announces New Community-Oriented Bureau In an effort to restore trust in the San Francisco Police Department in the wake of the killing of Mario Woods, Police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee announced Monday that some
SF News Nevius Paints Chief Suhr As Victim Amid the ongoing outcry over the SFPD's actions in the shooting of Mario Woods last month, and the subsequent attempted justification of those actions by police chief Greg Suhr, Chronicle columnist C.W.
SF News Early Morning Protests Wake Up Mayor Lee And Chief Suhr #96Hours to Reclaim King's #Radical #Legacy #APTP #Last3Pecent #ReclaimSF #BlackBrownUnity Good Morning, #GregSuhr! pic.twitter.com/B95YfuCqGP— Smedley Butler (@Smedley_Butler) January 17, 2016 A pair of dramatic protest events occurred in the
SF News Witness In Alex Nieto Civil Rights Trial To Say He Had Hands In His Pockets When Police Shot Him Nearly two years since the police shooting of Alex Nieto, a federal civil rights trial is set to begin in the case on March 1 in which at least one eyewitness will directly
SF News Gascon On Mario Woods Shooting: 'This Is Not A Conversation About Tasers' As District Attorney George Gascon prepares to potentially file criminal charges against the five SFPD officers involved in the shooting of Mario Woods, he's assured protesters that the investigation into the incident will
SF News Mario Woods Mourned At Funeral, Protest Planned For DA's Office Today Mario Woods was mourned by family and friends in a closed coffin service yesterday at the Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church, just across the street from where he was shot and killed by five
SF News Two SFPD Officers Who Shot Mario Woods Previously Faced Excessive-Force Lawsuits Announcing that he would file a civil rights lawsuit against the SFPD, last week attorney John Burris released an enhanced new video showing the police shooting of 26-year old Mario Woods, a black
SF News Campos On Mario Woods Shooting: 'We Need Fundamental Change Around De-Escalation' Both Martin Halloran, the president of the S.F. Police Officers Association, and Supervisor David Campos went on Phil Matier's Sunday morning program on CBS 5, Matier in the Morning, to have an
SF News Police Commission Meeting About Mario Woods Shooting Erupts In Chaos Healthy showing of protesters outside #SF city hall calling for consequences to killing of #mariowoods pic.twitter.com/SF4yINHJqs— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) December 10, 2015 A meeting of the police commission Wednesday
SF News SFPD Still Trying To Justify Killing Knife-Wielding Mario Woods As Community Outrage Grows Gwendolyn Woods said SFPD executed her son, the youngest of three boys. Here's a picture of mom and #MarioWoods pic.twitter.com/vyniRQsgGn— Michael Barba (@mdbarba) December 4, 2015 Tensions are rising and
SF News SFPD Will Be Allowed To Review Body Cam Footage Before Giving Statements, Per Draft Rules The San Francisco Police Commission voted yesterday on a policy regulating when officers will be able to review footage from body cameras before writing incident reports. In a contentious vote, the commission decided
SF News Sunday Sideshows Lead To Oakland Officers Killing One Man Holding Replica Handgun There was some mayhem involving an army of vehicles and multiple separate sideshows in Oakland over the weekend. In addition to the police cars and helicopter that got shot at near a sideshow
