Just the state level and federal level but at the local level. 10,000 people marching in the city according to an unofficial police estimate. Good evening everyone im frank somerville. Im julie haener working from home. This evenings demonstration wrapped up in the past hour, with most of the crowd dispersing. In the past 30 minutes weve seen small groups of people on market street, in the mission and near city hall. We have live coverage from amber lee. She has more now on the march and the message. Reporter protesters say this demonstration is about building momentum, and that there is still a lot of work to done to ensure justice for george floyd and other members of the black community. An hours long protest with San Franciscos hall of justice on bryant street, feeding in that its a symbol of what demonstrators say is their goal, justice for black men such as george floyd of minneapolis whove been killed by police. Protesters say it took too long for all four officers to be crimina
Good evening and welcome to the june 3 meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. Will you please call roll. Yes. [roll call] we have a quorum. Vice president taylor thank you. In the last few weeks, we watched the barbaric murder of george floyd by vile, racist Police Officers. We watched Ahmaud Arbery get gunned down by white spr supremacists. Study after study shows that white people and black people are not only more likely to commit crimes, they think that we feel less pain. We have a less nuanced feeling, and less worthy of protection, so we often have to fend for ourselves. Racism is definitely a police problem, one that is as old as our entire nation, but lets be clear no ones off the hook. Racism is an america problem. Trayvon martin, Ahmaud Arbery were killed by citizens. The overwhelming number of hate crimes are committed by ordinary citizens. Every Single Member of this commission is committed to rooting out bias in this Police Department, and after seeing the murder
Six degrees cooler. Yesterday was the hottest day. Cooling begins today and really ushers in a big cooling trend friday taking us into the weekend. Temperatures still above average. They are coming down, but still pretty warm. Over to sell. Things sometimes pick up at 6 00. Are we seeing that yet . A little bit. The picking up just a little bit, but not at the Richmond Bridge. Traffic is going to be okay coming across the span at the Richmond Bridge. Not picking up here. At some other commutes it is beginning to get a little more crowded. But not here at the bay bridge just yet. We will see what happens within the next half hour. At 880 n. And south traffic still looks good. We seymour traffic is stop and go. Lets go back to the headlines. Happening today, the first of several Memorial Services for george floyd will be held in minneapolis. It will be on the campus of North Central university. The reverend al sharpton will deliver a eulogy. Additional services are planned for saturday i
We have a quorum. Vice president taylor thank you. In the last few weeks, we watched the barbaric murder of george floyd by vile, racist Police Officers. We watched Ahmaud Arbery get gunned down by white spr supremacists. Study after study shows that white people and black people are not only more likely to commit crimes, they think that we feel less pain. We have a less nuanced feeling, and less worthy of protection, so we often have to fend for ourselves. Racism is definitely a police problem, one that is as old as our entire nation, but lets be clear no ones off the hook. Racism is an america problem. Trayvon martin, Ahmaud Arbery were killed by citizens. The overwhelming number of hate crimes are committed by ordinary citizens. Every Single Member of this commission is committed to rooting out bias in this Police Department, and after seeing the murder in minneapolis, after seeing the recent video circulating of what appears to be neck restraints used here in San Francisco in janua
[please stand by] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President hirsch would like to take call . Yes, thank you. Phones off please. Vice president taylor is excused. [roll call] president hirsch, you have a quorum, also with us are chief scott and director henderson from the department of police accountability. Thank you. Good evening. Happy new year to everybody. I want illike to congratulate the mayor on starting her first day of her first full term. We have a full calendar, so there will be two minutes for Public Comment. With that, we are ready to go. All right. Administratively, line item 2c and closed session 9b has been removed from the calendar or for the agenda. Line item 1, to ask of minutes, action for the meetings of december 4 and 11, 2019. 2c, the Youth Commission requested that we put their comments over by a month because they were n