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
SF News Surveillance Video Shows Sheriff's Deputy Beating Man At SF General A San Francisco Sheriff's deputy was arrested in connection with beating a man in a waiting room at SF General and then falsifying reports to cover it up. As ABC 7 reports, 33-year-old
SF News Video Shows Cop Choking Handcuffed Giants Fan [Update] A fan at Tuesday's SF Giants home opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks recorded this footage of an SFPD officer and what appears to be a non-resisting Giants fan. Bigbodycisco, who uploaded the video,
SF News Young Tech Worker Who Called 911 On Behalf Of Injured Cyclist Arrested, Roughed Up, Jailed [Updated] A man calling himself a "good Samaritan" who called 911 after finding a girl injured in a bicycling accident late one weekend night in SoMa has taken to the internet to describe what
SF News SFPD To Get Officer-Mounted Video Cameras Starting in December, around 50 SFPD officers will strap small, wearable video cameras to themselves. It's all part of a pilot program funded by quarter-million dollar federal grant. According to Chief Greg Suhr,
SF News Second Video Surfaces Of Friday's Valencia Gardens Chaos Another video has come to light that shows the original subject of the alleged police brutality we were learning about that took place Friday at the Valencia Gardens complex. The video begins earlier
SF News Police Brutality Alleged In Bizarre Valencia Gardens Incident Fights broke out Friday between police and residents of the Valencia Gardens housing complex near 15th Street after undercover officers initially, allegedly roughed up an unarmed 21-year-old man who was bicycling home after
SF News Video: SFPD Using Excessive Force During Mission Arrest? The following footage, captured by YouTube user Griz415, shows two cops on motorbikes arresting an allegedly unarmed man in the Mission while using questionable force. You can hear the suspect scream as he's
SF News $1 Million Awarded To Pepper Sprayed UC Davis Students The University of California will fork over $30,000 to each of the 21 UC Davis students pepper sprayed during last November's Occupy demonstration, "with and an additional $250,000 for their attorneys
Arts & Entertainment Fatal BART Shooting To Big Screen: Octavia Spencer To Star In Indie Movie About Oscar Grant Killing Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and former Friday Night Lights actor Michael B. Jordan are in talks to star in Fruitvale, an independent flick about the 2009 New Year's Eve killing of Oscar
SF News UC President Yudof 'Appalled' By UC Davis Pepper Spraying Students After UC Davis police pepper sprayed students peacefully protesting the Occupy movement on Saturday, University of California President Mark Yudof announced plans to take immediate action against yesterday's aggressive, misguided dust-up. If you
SF News Video: Police Beat UC Berkeley Students at Occupy Cal Rally [UPDATED] During a budding Occupy Berkeley demonstration Wednesday at the UC Berkeley campus, police charged at a group of protesting students before retreating. As the cops attacked the kids, the group chanted, "Stop beating
SF News Quote Du Jour: Tupac And The Oakland Police Department Fifteen years ago today, Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. His murder remains steeped in questions and controversy. However, while the Oakland artist was alive, he tossed off the following
SF News SFPD Looks Into Case of Alleged Police Brutality SFPD is investigating another incident of brutality the a weekend incident was caught on film. While arresting a "drunk and belligerent" baby stroller-pushing woman at the Taraval station on Sunday, an officer appears
SF News Police Respond to Gay Pride Beating Video Yesterday, SFist broke the story of an enthralling, although possibly problematic, police scuffle caught on tape at Sunday's Gay Pride. See, a few revelers were out of line (assaulting police officers, drunk, wearing
SF News Police Ruckus Raised at S.F. Gay Pride It looks like things got a bit out of hand during an attempted arrest at Sunday's S.F. Gay Pride festivities. Shot by fckjulien1000 near the Orpheum Theater, the title of this video
SF News SFSU Student vs. Police Officer Protesting SF State University's plan to "charge 11 students $8,100 for damages incurred during a December occupation of the business school," SFSU students held a peaceful protest on Wednesday that go slightly
SF News Video: Police Attack I-880 Takeover Protesters Your browser is not able to display this multimedia content. The spirited folks over at Indybay.org bring our attention to this video, one that chronicles last week's I-880 protest that resulted in
SF News Indybay's Fetishization of the African-American Male Continues Oh, Indybay.org, you know we like you. Why? Because you're so hot-headed and loopy; the flipside to zombietime, if you will. But this takes the soy-based vegan carrot cake. Your most recent
SF News We Want $50 Million, Says Oscar Grant Family Members Family members of Oscar Grant are asking for a bountiful $50 million from Bay Area Rapid Transit, chief of police Gary Gee, and three of the officers (Tony Pirone, Marysol Domenic, and Johannes
