Cam video shows officers used excess i Excessive Force and his pregnant grermd. B. A. R. T. Police just received this report. I was just raped. Reporter man who called 911 had been cursing at them and telling them they smelled. Neither smith nor appleton was sglarmd do you believe your officers used Excessive Force. No. It was a perfect response. They shared these pictures and in the knit he dnch. She believes an officer who placed a knee on her back caused her to miscary. When i first found out i lost my baby, i was stressful and hurt and lost. The jury acquitted smith on three battery counts and was hung on four others including resisting arrest. There were three of us that were pretty adamant that it was Excessive Force and he had every right to defend himself. The d. A. Is deciding whether to retry the case. And in an email statement the spokesperson says the video the public defender showed was edited, quote, in exclusioning the evidence the judge cited editorial choices that were
Working on it and work on a fix and then two days later of course uber announced it was launching for service in San Francisco with autonomous self driving vehicles. Reporter that has the mayor and officials that uber stop without clearance from the department of motor vehicles. I dont care he should be on the streets without the permit. Reporter that was San Francisco mayor ed lee relating his call to uber chief executive travis about this. Im a big supporter of ridesharing and Driverless Technology but well have a setback if people arent putting safety as their number one concern. Reporter what was his response . Thought he was still being safe. Reporter he made no signs of stopping . He will keep doing it no matter what . In our conversation, we left it at that. Reporter its not the first time that uber and other Tech Companies flouted the rules whether picking up riders at the San Francisco airport without permits or paying local business taxes. In fact the city doesnt know how man
Live where you live, this is abc7 news. [ chanting let them go ]. Across our country tonight, demonstrators are letting their voices be heard at our airports. San francisco, chicago, new york, and many more. Tonight a bit of good news for those protesters who are against pesident trumps controversial extreme vetting executive order. Good evening and thank ou for joining us, im matt keller. Earlier this evening a federal judge in new york issued a stay for part of that executive order. Federal judges in virginia and seattle have since followed suit. That was, of course, welcome news for protesters here in San Francisco and across the country. The new york judges order tonight will ensure those detained will not be sent home for the time being. We have Team Coverage tonight from San Francisco international airport, abc7 News Reporter kay larson and Sergio Quintana have been there for hours. Beginning with sergio. Reporter we are now about eight hours into the protest at sfo. Theres still
Also be prepositioned ahead of the storm in places where outages are expected. You can track the weather with the abc7 news app. We have live doppler 7 on the app and you can enable push alerts to get any weather updates on your phone or tablet. Developing news this morning in solano county. Public Health Officials with trying to calm fears at a tuberculosis case at a high school. More than 200 students and staff may have been exposed. This letter went out to parents yesterday after the person tested positive last week. Now, the school is not saying if the person affected is a student or a staff member, only that he or she is affiliated with the high school. Officials say they may have been at the school for a few days. So they plan to notify everyone that came into contact with this person. A Public Meeting for concerned parents is scheduled on tuesday. An unexpected aboutface for oakland city leaders who issued a new policy only to then retract that new policy a few hours later. Here
Scale upgraded to a 2 late last night. Good morning to you on this friday, february 17. Im reggie aqui. Grab all of your rain gear, youre going to need it today. Lets go ahead and check in with mike nicco this morning. Ive got a few tweets from some folks who went and bought new boots. Good for you. Congratulations, styling while staying dry. Emeryville all the way up to berkeley to kinzington and richmond, were seeing some of the moderate downpours in the east bay freeway there and from San Francisco up to mill valley. This is marching northward. This is the leading edge of whats going to be periods of the moderate to heavy rain. As you can see on the richmond side of the richmondsan rafael bridge, it wil be moderate by noon, scattered by 4 00, still a chance at 7 00 but just like yesterday, this is going to be a morningcentered storm that will bring us more rain and more wind than yesterday. Thats why as reggie mentioned, its a 2. Heres alexis with the commute. Weve got about 20 issu