His work has appeared in the New York Times, salon and many other publications. He is the Elizabeth Morris Political Science at Windsor College in oregon in portland, tonight he presents his new book the fire is upon us, James Baldwin, William Buckley junior and the debate over race in america. Please join me in welcoming nicholas buccola. [applause] thank you. Really appreciate that introduction. I want to start by saying how special it is to me to be with you. I live 3 blocks from here for 5 years when i was in graduate school and i would come to romans every wednesday with my mom kathy who is sitting here and my late cousin kathy martin and we would go to lemley and see a movie and it is special for me to be here tonight. Tonight i am going to talk to you about something that happened in this space, february 18, 1865. February 18, 1965, 54 years ago. This space was filled with 700 people. Every spot on the benches was taken that people sitting on the floor in deep violation of the f
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. Want me to call the role . Yes please. Role[roll call] also present the chief scott from the San Francisco Police Department and Paul Henderson from the department of police accountability. Okay. Thank you, good evening everybody. This is the october 2nd, 2019 meeting of the San Francisco police commission. We have a relatively longer agenda tonight so i will limit Public Comment to two minutes. And we have a one item on the agenda that will be dropped for the time being, the Police Chiefs report on the fdrb will be moved to another date as im told we still need backup documentation that wasnt ready. So with that we are ready for the first item. Line item 1 adoption of minutes action for the meetings of september 11 and 19th, 2019. Hang on a minute. Yes . One thing i am going to ask to move the dpa directors 2018 an
Dejesus for understanding the work that we are doing with the reentry. As you know yesterday i was here as the mayor signed the Racial Equity, which was signed by all the supervisors signed onto it. In 2018 i was a member of the cohort of Government Alliance on Racial Equity. I was representing the Probation Department representing the District Attorneys Office as well as probation, we were in a session trying to create a criminal justice Racial Equity statement for the hr department. And it was then we came together and said, hey we all represent a component of the criminal Justice Department system and that we needed a shared language and definition of the Racial Equity work that we will be doing here in the city. The criminal justice Racial Equity statement im here to present to you. The criminal justice and Racial Equity, i dont know if you all read it. But ill go ahead and read it. It was adopted by the commission. So we started with the da commission. It was adopted september 12
From the department of police accountability. Okay. Thank you, good evening everybody. This is the october 2nd, 2019 meeting of the San Francisco police commission. We have a relatively longer agenda tonight so i will limit Public Comment to two minutes. And we have a one item on the agenda that will be dropped for the time being, the Police Chiefs report on the fdrb will be moved to another date as im told we still need backup documentation that wasnt ready. So with that we are ready for the first item. Line item 1 adoption of minutes action for the meetings of september 11 and 19th, 2019. Hang on a minute. Yes . One thing i am going to ask to move the dpa directors 2018 annual report. Im going to ask to table that or calendar that for another session. I spoke with commissioners hamasaki and dejesus who are not here today but wanted to have an opportunity to discuss the report so im going to ask if my fellow commissioners will accommodate the request to move that to another day. Have
Please, standby. He was the chairman has called a meeting to order. Be please turn off your Electronic Devices as they tend to interfere with the equipment in the room and please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] commissioner turman oddly to call roll call turman, here. Mazzucco be present marshall the present dejesus, here. Melara, here. Hing, here. Commissioner turman you have a quorum also with us tonight is the interim chief of police 20 chaplin and the director of the Occ Joyce Hicks all right. Good evening everyone. Members of the public, ladies and gentlemen and people of San Francisco. Thank you so much for raving the inclement weather and coming out tonight to the regular meeting wednesday, january 18, 2017 of the San Francisco Police Commission. I think we will jump right into the first item item 1 consent calendar received an file in San Francisco Police Commission report on disciplinary actions Fourth Quarter 2016. All right. Colleagues, this falls u