It watching our 2 international bring you in your life news update from our studio here and most welcome to the program we start with breaking news this hour as russian officials have announced they are dropping a criminal case against russian investigative journalist north who had been arrested for the illegal possession of drugs the evidence gathered against him was said to have been salmon and found invalid the officers who were in charge of the case have been suspended the journalist attention provoked anger and protests were not joined live by more ive got to for more on this now the case had provoked outrage among the Media Community did anyone expect this latest twist. You know the wood that this was coming the outpouring of support for him was it was unanimous it was everywhere we had protests and in moscow we had russias 3 biggest newspapers. Published the same title. With him basically. It was solidarity like never before this is a journalist working from a doozer i would say
Commissioner byrne here. Commissioner yee here. Uh, Vice President carter oberstein, you have a quorum. Commissioner. President elias is in route. Also with us tonight, we have chief scott from the San Francisco Police Department and executive director Paul Henderson from the department of police accountability. Uh, sergeant, could you call the first item, please . Line item one. General Public Comment at this time. The public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonights agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Police Commission under Police Commission, rules of order during Public Comment, Neither Police or epa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email the secretary of the Police Commission at sfpd. Commission at sf dot org or written comments may be sent
Shares her story of survival following the surprise terrorist attack. And speed cameras are coming to multiple bay area cities, how theyre going to work and what they hope will happen to the people who are breaking the law. Station. Hes calling for 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 2. Im justine waldman. And today state attorney, the general rob bonta announced new push to reform the Vallejo Police department kron 4 s Charles Clifford has our top story. Well, theres been an ongoing effort for the past couple of years to reform the Vallejo Police department. Today, attorney general bonta said that that work will continue. California attorney general rob bonta announced on monday that the state, doj and the city of les are launching a new effort to reform the Vallejo Police department. This is a continuation of a process that started 3 years ago. The state says the progress has been made, but that theyre still a long ways to go. The new effort will focus on 45 areas of
, ergonomic unmanned water drone is being tested in the volgograd region. Big catch as a reason for investigation. On the beaches of the primorsky territory, instead of vacationers, there are now anchovies. The idf has concentrated significant forces along the border of the gas sector in anticipation of a possible hamas called on palestinians to choose death over exile. 423 residents have already left, and the local un office has also evacuated. According to some reports, the army intends to release israeli hostages in gaza, whom, according to intelligence data, hamas is holding in underground tunnels. The shelling does not stop. Military reports killing 750 troops objects in gas. Hamas fired 150 rockets at sterota and is hitting bengurion airport, which is now overcrowded, with citizens evacuating dozens of countries. Organized groups of russian tourists still remaining in israel, according to the association of tour operators, will fly home before sunday. Reports by sergei pashkov, a
Greer, oic of the general work detail. Id like to recognize officer Michael Grande for his dedication and professionalism of the general work detail. Officer grande has over 18 years of service with the San Francisco Police Department since the general work detail was reestablished in march of 2022. Officer grande has been the sole video retrieval officer for and worked hundreds of complex cases as Video Evidence has become increasingly critical for successful prosecution of cases and is frequently the only evidence to identify perpetrators of crimes. This evidence is fleeting and is often retained for as little as one week due to data storage constraints of many systems. Office ser grande has routinely made himself available at hours beyond his normal schedule to obtain his evidence in a timely manner. The officer grande is one of only five members of the sfpd to have completed an intensive week long course on forensic video retrieval and analysis through viva. In addition to the Tech