Stop looter when is they mistook a hammer for a gun. Calls for police to release body camera video. Christie smith live at the demonstration in vallejo. Reporter a large crowd gather at city hall in vallejo but wii want to tell you what happened since then. They held a rally here and marched other there. Theyre about a half a block away from the police department. A lot of folks out here speaking, carrying signs, stop police brutality, justice for sean. There are also other names on signs, also black lives matters. They say its in honor of family members. Several Community Groups took part in organizing it. They say they are calling for change including the release of body cam footage in the shooting of sean montero sa. Some of them are calling for Defunding Police by reducing the budget and putting funding towards program that help the community. We just spoke with one of the organizers. I think with the momentum that this nation has from the george floyd case, i think everybodys read
Its important that this not just be in the castro or in the soma, that it be in the marina and Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights and Pacific Heights and for people who need to be woke can read it and see that this is okay. Reporter the woman in the video has been identified as lisa alexander, the ceo of a Skin Care Company called laface. At least one company, birch box, which had been associated with her brand, has already denounced her actions, writing in a tweet in part, we have not worked with laface for several years. And as a result of the ceos actions today, have officially cut ties with them. Ive actually tried contacting lisa a couple different times, a few different times actually today and have not had any return phone calls from her. Reporting live in San Francisco, im sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Thanks, sergio. Protests continue in the bay area today. This one here in San Francisco organized by Mission High School students. People marched all the way from the high
So im justice delighted to have her join just delighted to have her join the department. So its a great announcement to make to you all today. And then i, again, i will go through the covid19 update as the next. The agenda item and i am prepared to take any questions. Clerk thank you, dr. Colfax. Commissioners, before you might have any questions. Number one, can i ask everyone except actually everyone to mute themselves except for dr. Colfax right now. I see a lot of microphones on and were hearing someone typing. So everyone would please mute yourselves. And then the Public Comment line, any Public Comment for the directors report . Lets give it one second. Im going to share the Public Comment line info real quickly. Okay. There are no questions from the public. Im going to put this line up quickly for that in case number is watching. Commissioners, if you have any questions for dr. Colfax on the directors report, please raise your hand. Commissioner chow this is dr. Chow. I cant rai
Or whatever the processes would be, for a more permanent way of making sure that hiring is really more effective as you have shown . Thank you, commissioner, for that question. Just so you know that part of what we did is that we dismantled some of the norm processees that we used in hiring. But even with that, if you looked at just the nursing, for instance, that theres some things that we did which we can keep as we go forward. And im hoping that it will also blend and lend into the rest of the type of hiring that we do. With the directive from the mayor we were able to bypass some of the Civil Service rule processes in terms of hiring. But what we did specifically is to start looking at with the nurses and hiring without having to wait for the supervisor who is doing the clinical work to do the interviews and the processing. And h. R. Took control of that. And those are some of the things that we can do and to look at in the future as we start in our hiring process. One of the key t
Work on a more normal basis, well continue to try to meet remotely so that we can play our part in slowing the spread of covid19. I want to also announce a couple of reminders to the conduct of this hearing. Members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing, and members are responsible for their own microphones. Just be mindful that you probably have a little bit more responsibility than usual than if we were in a regular meeting space. And please keep your microphones muted unless youre speaking and finally if members have documents they wish to submit to the record, email them to the committee clerk. But if you dont have it, we can make sure you do get it. I welcome you to the science, space and Technology Committees First Virtual hearing. Today were discussing the impact of covid19 on the Fire Service Community and how we can best leverage existing federal programs to expedite assistance to Fire Departments during the pandemic. I appreciate our witne