Happen nothing San Francisco. I hear the people saying we can have these things on vacant parking lot or something. Is this how we treat people and give them Healing Services . The board of supervisors the legislative board has failed us. We can have this we cant have the hearing a million times. Yall is no clout. Laguna honda, no clout. You are abusing elders. Who is responsible for their deaths in when is responsible of these trying to bring people so that pretending you can reapplicant approximate they day. Some have the over there. And got treatment. And then they through them in the streets. This is not San Francisco. So supervisors i know that you are trying to do something to inform the people. But you are not [inaudible] if time has lapsed. After the fact. Thank you for sharing your comments, next speaker, please. Why good upon afternoon, supervisors and thank you for having this hearing. Im ellen guarantee a San Francisco resident of district 8 and love you supervisor mandelma
Supervisor stefani, not present. President walton. Present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. We are in a unseated home land of the original hab stands of the San Francisco peninsula we recognize we tpweupbt from little and working on their era digs al home land. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledge. pledge of allegiance on be half of the board of supervisors i would like to act ol the staff at sfgovtv. We have ms. Mendoza recording the meetings and making the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, the 2 00 oclock special order. The honorable mayor, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. We have her online. Thank you, madam clerk. Welcome to the meeting, madam, mayor. Thank you, president walton. Good afternoon, supervisors. Its election day. I know there is a lot of work to be done. I will be brief. I want to thank the director for running our elections department. So often in the city we talk about the problems we have. This is a opportunity to recognize t
Neighborhood. Fail the people hor relying on this center. And who are the most vulnerable in the city. After we have done an experiments which is the opposite of failing. And being bold as a city in trying to solve our crisis. There is still it is in the too late. I think we can change course on this. I hope our resolution plays a role and unless there are further comments or questions from colleagues i would like to go head and make a motion to sends this resolution to the board of supervisors with positive recommendation as a committee report. Maldam clerk on the motion to forward this to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommend agsz as a committee report. Vice chair chan. Aye member mandelman. No. Chair preston. Aye there are 2 ayes and member mandelman in decent. The motion passes thanks to everyone from department of Public Health and majors office and the public for their participation in this hearing today. Please call item 3 for closed session. Ordinance authoriz
Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. Are you clear now that our statutes prohibit torture and if the president were to rover yid that clear Legal Authority what actions would you take . On your previous question i would note the federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more percent and will drop
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Within Police Departments. But we start this hour at the white house with nbcs Peter Alexander where, again, the president is expected to lay out his vision for Police Reform roughly an hour from now. Peter, youve got some brand new reporting on this executive order, specifically related to chokeholds. What can you tell us . Reporter youre exactly right. Lets walk you through this. Well see the president in the rose garden about an hour from now. Hell be there with members of the Law Enforcement community. Hes also scheduled to meet with families of victims of Police Violence. Im told this will direct the Justice Department basically to certify external organizations to examine the useofforce fours policies including the useofforce chokeholds which is significant here. Im told the white house has the expectation that the organizations will recommend ending the useofforce chokeholds with an exception, im told, for situations involving deadly force against an officer. Weve heard the pres