Live stream description and click the icon in the bottom left corner to select your preferred language. Good afternoon. Were here today for a virtual town hall regarding an officer involved shooting that occurred on wednesday, july 26, 2023, in the intersection of catalina street and fairfax avenue. Before proceeding, id like to announce to our viewing and listening audience that this town hall is being translated into spanish, cantonese and american sign language. Asl for members of our community who speak those languages without suggesting a premature judgment on the appropriateness of the force used in this particular incident. Todays presentation will include details from an officer involved shooting incident that ended tragically claiming the life of 41 year old ryan bluford. Id like to express my deepest condolences to mr. Bluford surviving family members for the tragedy theyve experienced in the San Francisco Police Department. We recognize that our sworn duty as Law Enforcement
A virtual town hall regarding an officer involved shooting that occurred on wednesday, july 26, 2023, in the intersection of catalina street and fairfax avenue. Before proceeding, id like to announce to our viewing and listening audience that this town hall is being translated into spanish, cantonese and american sign language. Asl for members of our community who speak those languages without suggesting a premature judgment on the appropriateness of the force used in this particular incident. Todays presentation will include details from an officer involved shooting incident that ended tragically claiming the life of 41 year old ryan bluford. Id like to express my deepest condolences to mr. Bluford surviving family members for the tragedy theyve experienced in the San Francisco Police Department. We recognize that our sworn duty as Law Enforcement officers imposes no more solemn obligation on us than to honor and respect the sanctity of human life. We also know that as Police Officers
Star 3 to be added to the queue. For those watching on webex click on the raise hand icon to raise your hand to speak. Well take in person Public Comment and now one approached the podium so move to our remote Public Comment. We have two callers on the line. I will be checking to make sure they come through. Remote Public Comment is coming through and we s one caller on the line. Zero callers raised their hand at this time. Well take a 5 second pause to see if any callers want to comment on this item. No callers have raised their hand at this time. Public comment is now closed. Well have a roll call vote. A roll call vote [roll call] passes unanimously and move to item 16. Item 16 is possible report on action taken in closed session. San francisco administrative code section 67. 12b. This is action item and presented by president scott. Ready to entertain a motion whether we report on actions taken in closed session . I move we do not report on actions in closed session. Second. Proper
Now. I will take again item 1 then i will do Public Comment for item one only and skip to items 9 and 10 combined. Public comment for 9 and 10 items only and then we will do general Public Comment for 15 minutes. Now recall the general Public Comment for any item not on the agenda and go to our regular program. I wanted to let you know that i then and there again this is an important topic we appreciate you being here. We want to cut to the chase and get bo it. As a body, our responsibility is to do policy and develop for the department. We have asked the chief of police to begin an investigation, and as you saw last week. Other commissioners have reached out. To the chief of police to ensure an investigation is done in this matter. We asked dph to investigate in policy and any possible disciplinary matters. As the body who decides policy and develop, it is important for us to remain neutral and listen to the facts as they criminal it is my understanding that both the department have b
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