Public who wish to address the board. My mistake. Open up for Public Comment on this item. To the amended minutes that were recirculated from may 19. Members of the public who are watching this meeting via sfg tv who wish to address the board call 8888086929 and press 9961164. All right. We will wait a moment to see if there are members of the public who wish to address the board with respect to the amended minutes of may 19. Director borden, put yourself on mute. All right. Moderator is telling us there are no callers. Seeing of no callers s the floor closed officially . Yes, madam chair t moderator will close Public Comment for the minutes. And there is still a roll call vote on the minutes . A yes, madam chair. Director borden. Aye. Director brinkman . Dr. Brinkman, unmute. Aye. Dr. Eaken . Aye. Heminger. And that is approved by unanimous approval. Item 5, communication. Before i get into the extensive directions here, i just wanted to say a few words because we are coming together
Reigniting the National Debate over Police Brutality and has sparked a federal investigation. The Law Enforcement officer, has within their latitude of scope of duty, the ability to use the right amount of force. But not Excessive Force. Not Excessive Force as defined by the law. A tense situation in minneapolis tonight. Good evening, im christina run down. Im frank somerville. Those protests are spread around the country, including here in the bay area, but none of them with the intensity of minneapolis. This is video from the Third Police Precinct in minneapolis in just the past 90 minutes. Its been the focus of all the protests and tonight the building, as you can see, was set on fire. There are hundreds of protesters surrounding the precinct. Police officers were seen abandoning it, but there has been no sign of any firefighters as of yet. You can see people piling wood and cardboard at the entrance to the building and throwing fireworks as the fire burns out of control. The damage
San francisco gr San Francisco implementing a curfew effective immediately. This comes as protests over the death of george floyd turned destructive. Looking at looters along market 12r50 street. Windows smashed at the westfield mall as well as union scare. Mayor london breed had this message for looters. If you are in our city from other places, please go back to the city that you live in. Please do not come into San Francisco and destroy our city. Again, its effective immediately, lasts until 5 00 tomorrow morning. It starts up again 8 00 tomorrow night. Mayor breed says the National Guard is also standing by to help if needed. Other scenes playing across the bay area tonight. Our sky ranger was in emeryville where protesters torched vehicles at a best buy. A live look now for you of that very same best buy. Now officers have arrived too late to protect the cars, but theyre protecting the store as best they can right now. Speaking of emeryville, thats where nbc bay areas Sergio Quint
Combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. Thats what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people dont like it and some people do were concerned about that. Its about thirty something out there thats risky. You know, disliked by someone torn apart and thats the whole point of what were drying to do you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. Amendments to the amendments. The corrected minutes were reposted yesterday as requested. A directors, do we have a motion for the reposted minutes for the may 19 meeting . So moved. Second. All in favor . Before we do, we should see if there are minutes of the public who wish to address the board. My mistake. Open up for Public Comment on this item. To the amended minutes that were recirculated from may 19. Members of the public who are watching this meeting
Commands they were giving, i can tell you from what i see so far, it looks like the san jose officers were forming a skirmish line based on the size of the crowd. There probably having a particular area or ground theyre trying to cover or take back or at least move some of the demonstrators back to a certain position. Its coordinated and uniform. I thought they showed a lot of restraint and discipline, they are maintaining these lines of integrity. Office lay there are people there, i can see right now that are provocateurs and t ground and remaining professional. I see that there are people with smoke grenades and people throwing debris at the officers, so that is concerning, but the officers are following the direction of their commander, they have a plan. I dont know what the plan is but obviously theyre making sure that they protect life and property. There are a lot of things going on out there and a lot of people that could get hurt including officers so i think they are doing a