This is the kind of behavior we want to reward and recognize and shine a bright light to the community and show that there is alternatives to the use of force. When dealing with Mental Health crises. I think this Award Ceremony the 1st time ever, which im helping to organize to the oversight committee, that i participate in and speaking at the event as well is one of the speakers, im just grateful for it. Im grateful for your support and grateful for the cheap support of a period thats all i wanted to say that. Thank you so much. President thank you mr. Elliott lewis. Next speaker, please. Testifier my name is cw johnson did, person lived in the tenderloin committee for 30 years off and on. Also a community organizer. The have worked with you guys on redistricting and we know theres a necessary evil. So one of the things that we think we both Work Together and thats what weve done. So what we really hope that you listen to us and that you will thank you and have a good evening presiden
Stafford clerk i would like to call roll call. [call of the roll] yellow corn and with us is the chief of police and directors director of Office Citizens commissioner good evening everyone and welcome to the april 15, 2015 meeting of the police commission. Its nice to see folks here good thank you for taking the time to be with us. We love on agenda tonight. Some interesting items would please call the 1st light on. Clerk general public, and the public is now welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear in tonights agenda or the jurisdiction of the commission. The speaker showed us the remarks to the commission as a whole and not the individual commissioners departments or personnel. The Police Commissioner during Public Comment the police [inaudible] are required to respond to questions presented by the public may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners and personnel should refrain however for mentioning entering into debates were discussion with th
Yellow corn and with us is the chief of police and directors director of Office Citizens commissioner good evening everyone and welcome to the april 15, 2015 meeting of the police commission. Its nice to see folks here good thank you for taking the time to be with us. We love on agenda tonight. Some interesting items would please call the 1st light on. Clerk general public, and the public is now welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear in tonights agenda or the jurisdiction of the commission. The speaker showed us the remarks to the commission as a whole and not the individual commissioners departments or personnel. The Police Commissioner during Public Comment the police [inaudible] are required to respond to questions presented by the public may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners and personnel should refrain however for mentioning entering into debates were discussion with the speakers. This evening we have a lot of people in the room and w
Even if we have batch cameras the crime needs to be in forget we need an independent agency outside of the one that we have now that will enforce what is seen on the camera. As we know, rodney king was witnessed getting beat up by 17 officers and only less than a handful was convicted while the other officers stayed to watch enchanted and did not come to his defense. While he was handcuffed. We also know that trade on martin was also a victim in which zimmerman admittedly, told the officers that he shot trade on martin and was released to go home. We also know that oscar was handcuffed. We have videotape through cell phones, to high Tech Knowledge he and how is it that these officers are not convicted . So the batch camera has to be more than just a batch camera. We need an independent agency. Outside of the Police Department that will enforce what is seen on the batch camera were rails makes no sense to wear one. Thank you. President thank you. Next speaker, please. Welcome. Testifier
Uprisings in several cities. Officials say they arrested around 70 demonstrators who took over government buildings on sunday. The u. S. Blames moscow for orchestrating the demonstrations. The chants are familiar, like those last month in crimea, when they broke away from crimea. This time the independence are coming from three cities. We are concerned about what russia has done in crimea. We are concerned about the presence of troop numbers on the boarder. We are concerned about efforts under way in ukraine to destabilize the situation there in Eastern Ukraine, destabilize the government. Ukrainian police regained control over a government building. Protesters held firm, demanding a referendum allowing them to join russia. Masked men held the headquarters to the south. Authorities say they are holding 60 hostages, a charge the protesters denied. The activists confirmed they seized an lot of rifles. In donetsk another building remains in the hands of prorussian protesters, maintaining