SF News From Rodney King To Oscar Grant To Mario Woods, Oakland Attorney John Burris On Taking Cases That Change Police Departments John Burris isn't a political activist. "Making speeches? Nobody can win that," he says ruefully over tea in his Oakland law offices. "You can say what you want, I can say what I
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 Body Camera Shows Man Dying In Hayward And BART Police Custody The story of the death of James Greer while in police custody in 2014 is a sad and frustrating one, and now his family is seeking some kind of solace in pushing for
SF News Video: SFPD Officer Caught On Camera Hitting Suspect Says He Needs To Seize Camera A plainclothes SFPD officer seen in the video above apparently punching a suspect as he's being arrested can then be heard saying he has to "seize" the camera that was recording the incident
SF News Black Cyclist Says He Was Stopped And Beaten By SFPD While Delivering A Burrito A bicycle delivery worker was fulfilling a Postmates order for a burrito in SoMa when he tells CBS SF he was stopped by SFPD officers who went on to brutally beat and mace
SF News Sheriff's Deputies Who Brutally Beat Man In The Mission Named The Alameda County Sheriff's deputies who were caught on video brutally beating a 29-year-old man in the Mission last month have been named. The Contra Costa Times reports that on Thursday Luis Santamaria
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 Man Beaten In Mission By Alameda Deputies May Suffer Permanent Damage To His Arms And Hands Man beaten in SF by Alameda Co. sheriff's deputies had surgery for extensive injuries https://t.co/ugeSMkObb9 pic.twitter.com/CFrg5zim09— KQED News (@KQEDnews) November 19, 2015 The man seen receiving a
SF News Video Of Stockton Police Roughing Up Jaywalking Teen Incites Outrage On Social Media Yet another example, caught on video, of police overreach and arguable brutality has been making the rounds on social media, this time out of Stockton, California. The two-and-a-half-minute video shows a 16-year-old black
SF News Janelle Monáe And Wondaland Crew Draw Hundreds To Black Lives Matter Protest In Mission @JanelleMonae & Wanderland crew blessed SF with song, protest and march today #hellutalkingabout #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/R0nJycQTh1— Portia Elder (@PortiaElder) August 24, 2015 About 300 people showed up for the rally and
Arts & Entertainment Janelle Monáe To Perform At Rally Against Police Violence In The Mission R&B star Janelle Monáe will be performing Sunday afternoon in the Mission at a concert and rally against police violence. Monáe will be joined by Jidenna and fellow Wondaland Records artists
SF News Video Of One-Legged Man Restrained By Police On Mid-Market Prompts Review The cellphone video above that we showed you on Monday via reporter Chaédria LaBouvier has now prompted a wave of media coverage and an incident review by the SFPD and SFFD. Both departments
SF News Video: Homeless Amputee Taken Down By 14 Cops At Seventh And Market An incident occurred on mid-Market two weeks ago in which a one-legged man with crutches was reported, possibly by a nearby business owner, for waving some "sticks" around in the vicinity. Though we
SF News 24-Year-Old Man Suing SFPD Over Excessive Force During Post-Dyke March Protest There were various reports about some chaos, and police intervention, outside the old Lexington Club on Pink Saturday, after an offshoot of the planned Dyke March went rogue and decided to follow the
SF News City Settles For $20K With Cyclist Beaten By Police At Valencia Gardens Though it seems like a fairly paltry sum of money, the City Attorney's office has settled with a man who lives at the Valencia Gardens housing complex who claims he was brutalized and
SF News Man Accused Of Knocking Cop Unconscious During Struggle For Shotgun Has Troubled Past With SFPD A homeless man who said he was beaten by police after a July, 2014 altercation in the Panhandle is back in custody today, this time for allegedly knocking a cop unconscious as he
SF News Mayor Lee Proposes $3 Million Plan For Police Body Cameras Back in 2013, we were told that SFPD officers would be getting body cameras as part of a pilot program funded by $25,000 federal grant. But in January of this year, we
SF News Model Whose Face Was Slammed To The Ground During Arrest Now Suing BART, Oakland Police An extra-drunken St. Patrick's Day led to one San Francisco woman getting slammed to the ground by BART police, her face severely bloodied, four bones in her face broken, and two teeth damaged.
SF News Protesters Chain Themselves To Mission Police Station To Mark Anniversary Of Nieto Shooting Protest to mark the one-year anniversary of the police shooting of Alex Nieto still going strong on Valencia St. pic.twitter.com/SRXz7RmGoW— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) March 23, 2015 Protesting officer-involved shootings
SF News Video: SFPD Officer Pepper Sprays, Beats Homeless Man After Verbal Confrontation On Bus [Updated] San Francisco's Public Defender is calling for better training for San Francisco Police Department officers after a local cop was caught on video beating and pepper spraying a homeless man who'd fallen asleep
SF News How The Police Union Intimidated Supervisors Into Voting Against Police Brutality Resolution Remember the non-binding resolution, introduced by Supervisor John Avalos, that caused a stir among the SFPD and its union back in December? Well, the Examiner has now unearthed the strong-arming emails in which
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
SF News Attorney For Sheriff's Deputy Involved In SF General Brutality Case Calls Charges 'Political' In a somewhat curious statement, the attorney representing San Francisco sheriff's deputy Michael Lewelling who was arrested on December 19 in connection with some apparent brutality against a man with a cane in