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Shood shooting monday october 9 gear and he laguna street. Before proceeding i like to, nouns to the audience this this town hall is translateed spanish, cant niece, sign language for our member hos speak those languages. Without suggests a gentlemen on the appropriate knows of the force used in this incident today will include details from officer shooting incident had ended tragically claiming the life of therein year old danielle ylang. I like to express condolences to mr. Familys family for the transgender doe they experienced. In the San Francisco Police Department, we recognize our sworn duty as Law Enforcement officers imposed no obligation on us than to honor and respect human life and know that as Police Officers we are sometimes required to use force including deadly force at time in thes performance our duties recognize, too officer involved shooting vs a traumatic asciis on our communities especially for those individuals family and loved ones who have suffered traumas and encounters with the criminal Justice System where it may be. To any viewers upon experiencing traumatic from the ins den or information we present then and there help is visible to you. You micontact the San Francisco department of Public Health crisis line 4159703800 for trauma services. First and foremost in the San Francisco Police Department to be a National Model of 21st century mreegs commit to transparency and to the attendance of procedural justice. This process and in this town hall presentation. Procedural justice dependsos police as wellace our criminal Justice System with the town halls we embody the 10 annuals of what procedural justice is all about. We will release facts gotten us about the incident. We will try to do so in a manner that is impartial and neutral. Answer questions for the public as well as members of the media and listen to public de feoed badge acts command are mark m will present the fact in a few minutes before turning the floor to him, i want to emphasize this incident is subject to independent and on going investigations. As such, may be some information we cannot release at this time either because the release of information is presented by law or because the releaves information could compromise on going investigation or because certain facts not established with certainty. In other words, we are in the able to release unconfirmed information. Next acts command are mark americas presentation include a verbal narrative of the facts as we know them and audio and video contanlt from the officer shooting incident. Sfpd officers responded to the scene were wearing issued body cameras. Activated on their way to the incident. Consistent with our body camera policy the department 10. 11 you will see camera video from those officers from mum pull perspects at the San Francisco Police Department our commitment to transparency guide our investigations and town hall for several years now. Although our practice predate enactment of Police Accountability law in california, we believe our approach remained consistent with the letter and spirit of reforms and senate bill 1421 for place transparency and bill 1706 for account act. Sfpd commitment to transparency in this process will be reflect in the release of information online. Video from this town hall including audio from 911 call and dispatchers and the vo footage i mentioned we posted sfpds website at San Francisco police. Org. Tell remain available for public viewing. As a reminder all of sfpd governing policies and procedures is be found on our website. San Francisco Police Department Director mandate we release the names of officers from shooting says unless safety occurrence argue against it. We identified no safety concerns and acting command are mark america will release the names of the receive part of his presentation. I would like to explain the investigative processes for an officer involved shooting next. San francisco has a multiagency response to officer shootings each agencies investigations is inspect. Whenever a shooting occurs in San Francisco involving a Police Officer, the following agencies are immediately notified. The sfpd Investigative Service detail is unit responsible for investigating the events this is lead up to the shooting. The sfpd internal, Fair Division is responsible for conduct an administrative investigation to determine if the receive or officers responsible for the ois are in compliance with requirements of sfpd policy. The investigation of sfpd units run parallel each has afternoon investigative purvow and focus. Each maintains a strict to comply with requirements. The San Francisco Police Department of police issue count at conducts an independent administrative investigation. San francisco voters created dpa a successor to the office of citizen complaints with passage of prop b in the june 2016 election. Dp ainvestigates all sfpd incidents any of our officers discharge a weapon in the scope of their duty when is that discharge result in an individual injury or death. The San Francisco da office inspect Investigation Bureau or iib is responsible for the determining the legality of the officer involved shooting. Based on inspect investigation and review the da of county of San Francisco make the final decision as to whether the officers involved actions comply with the laws of the state of california. San Francisco Office of the chief medical examiner or ocme has a responsible for conduct an on scene investigation collecting evidence and taking custody of a diseased person in a shooting result nothing fatality. And tragic case, the ocme is responsible for conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death and to report those findings public low. This dinlts because mr. Ylang died the ocme will conduct an investigation to determine the cause of death. All notified agencies dispatched investigators and appropriate personnel to the begin their inspect investigations. Finally, i like to point out that we take Community Feedback seriously. Based on the feedback from prior shooting town halls we will also take question and other thans them to the extent we are able. Understanding that this incident rerains on going investigation. We will allocate an hour for Public Comment and questions. Thank you very much for joining us today and now acting command are mark m. The officer shooting discuss in the this presentation started on monday october 9, 2023 at approximately 3 08 p. M. The initial call for service regarded a noninjury vehicle collision with a driver and gun from the 1400 block of laguna in San Francisco Northern Police district. The involved member is uniformed sergeant of the San Francisco upon Police Department who is assigned to Northern Police station. You will hear the following terminology and radio code language used by officers. 8 property calls that involve serious incident. These are emergency calls requiring a Rapid Response because there may be a threat to life or a risk of Major Property loss or damageful bwd. Body worn cam ramp blue on blew where an officer fires upon another officer. Dispitcher is the department of Emergency Management dispatch exert radio system. 518 radio code for noninjury vehicle collision. We are still in the very early stages of an administrative investigation that can take months to complete and our understanding michange as additional evidence is collected. We dont draw conclusion whether the officer acted consistent with our policies and the law until all the facts are known and the investigation is complete. The following is a summary of the events as they are understood as of today and may evolve information learned let you investigation. The chronology of the incident remains under investigation. The types are thursday october 19, 2023 we believe the facts are as follows. On october nan 9 of 23 at 3 08 the department of Emergency Management dispatched sfpd officers from Northern Police station to a priority 518 call the dispatcher add sunrise i blue honda crash in the the chinese const. Ute and the driver had a gun. Replays that 2 guards were holding the driver and unknown where their gun was one of the callers told dispatch the collision of intentional. A sfpd sergeant arrived 4 minutes after the 911 call was dispatched. Sergeant broadcast over his rofor dispatch to clear air for emergency radio traffic and responding officers enters from gear site as he ran in the building the sergeant moved to the subject. The subject was identified at mr. Zon ylang. Doing to deployment of pep are separate sergeants and others are sawing the sergeant approached mr. Ylang and ordered him to get on the ground but he did in the comply he stood against the wall with the left side toward the sergeant and Security Guard mr. Ylang covered his face and right arm oust sergeants view. Sergeant and the guard pinned mr. Ylang against the paul mr. Ylang rotate to the sergeant and the Security Guard and supposed a knife. The sergeant blocked his right elbow as mr. Ylang turned toward them. Mr. Ylang made mull pull respectid down swinging motions with the knife toward the sergeant and the guard. As a first 2 uniform back up officers approached them the sergeant stepped back drew his firearm and the ois occurred the officers called for an ambulance and renldzers aid to mr. Ylang. 3 minutes after the ois the Fire Department and medics arrived and took over medical aid. The San Francisco Fire Department transported mr. Ylang to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased the name is zongian wang dob june 27 of 92. Evidence. Crime scene investigators from the Police Department Forensic Service responded and collected evidence from the scene including but not limited to the following. One folding knife with 3. 5 inch blade. 240 caliber casings and one loaded cross bow with arrows. Video footage and photographs. Officers on scene were department issued bwcs. They were activated respond to the incident. Anymoring video footageor photographs provided to the San Francisco da independent Investigation Bureau using the phone number 6286524420. Eyewitnesss and victims. Eyewitness and victims of incident were interviewed by the Police Department Investigative Service detail and the sage fran da inspect Investigation Bureau. Any other witness or victims to this are encouraged to contact the San Francisco da inspect investigation bonjour over at 628, 652, 4420. Involved member. Sfpd sergeant who discharged his firearm is sergeant try corof courseo number 1599 assigned Northern Police station. Todays presentation is provide in the a multimedia format for a transparent perspective the sfpd provide audio from the 911 call body camera footage. Crime scene photos, map s and related aids. Our present agdz today consisted of known video and audio at this Time Temperature is not intended provide all photos, videos or temperaturial information related this investigation. I will provide a presentation of the incident using the multimedia source. Select points to increase clarity videos enpanels ve hansed for a better understanding of the incident. Note that this presently egg, the enhanced videos will be available on the sfpd website immediately following town hall. Sfpd policy can be located on the sfpd website. Prior to the beginning of each segment i will provide a brief description to the time, place and location of the content about to be shown. You are about to see video footage and learn about other evidence related the case. You can have an understanding what occurred based upon when we know now. A word of caution, the image and information you are about to see and hear may be disturbing. When a Police Officer uses force to arrest a suspect or defend the imageers graphic and may be difficult to watch. In addition, there may be Strong Language used by those in the video. View are discretion is advised for Young Children special sensitive viewers. We encourage those in need of support contract San Francisco Public Health crisis line 4159703800 the iib is an want unit in the San Francisco direct Attorneys Office investigates and reviews all officer involved shootings. Iib reached by e mail. Or 6286524420. Between 3. 08 and 9 p. M. 3 called 911 reporting a vehicle driven in a belling on the 14 huh human block of laguna street you are about to hear the 911 call by San Francisco department of Emergency Management. Some personnel information provide by the caller has been redacted protect their privacy. 15 seconds. San francisco 911 the location of your emergency. Hello the China Embassy on laguna street. Whats that. Hello come here. Hello . Come here look the door. Do you have an emergency . [background noise] so hello . A carbrun in the China Embassy and the guy have a gun. And soon as possible. Okay. Stay on the line. They crashed in the building . The car drive through the lobby and the driver have a gun. And [inaudible] okay. What car is it . Its a sedan i dont see the plates im outside. What color is the sedan. You see the color. Bluic. A blue honda civic. Stay on the line. Where is the driver is he there . The driver is the 2 Security Guards. Security has the driver . The security has the driver. There are 2 security guy and we dont know where there are more cars or okay. Stay on the line is he in cuffs . Or they is he in cuffs. They are holding him i dont see. Okay. Stay on the line. What race is the driver white, black or asian. I run out. I didnt get the video. That is your name . Im [inaudible]. What is your phone number. Is anyone injured. I dont know but when the car have around 30 people may be, i dont know. Okay. Stay on the line we have officeros their way. What is the driver doing now . I cannot see it im get out from the lobby now. You are inside. I was inside when the car driving to the lobby. But i got outside from the lobby after the Security Guard get out. Okay. Kuwait for officers they are on their way. Im not hangingum with the call. Okay. Theyor their way. Call us back if anything changes. Say again. The officers are on their way call us back if anything changes. Should i hangup new yes they are on their way. Thank you. San francisco 911 what is exact location and the emergency . Hi this is reporting someone driveway a car in chinese embassy. Is anybody injured. Nobody injured but the car just drive in the office. Drove in the building. Drove into the building break all the doors. What is the address there. Address is i dont know have the number it is on the laguna street. And geary . [inaudible]. We have someone on the way stay on the phone what type of car is it . A sedan. I dont know. Blue car blue color. It does in the matter he is in the building im not able to see the car we will tell me you dont know if you dont know the answer is the driver in the vehicle. He is out. Where and the security is with him. Okay. Yea. Do you finish this is on purpose or an accident temperature is on purpose. Was he trying to get in the consulate. I dont know. We have help on the way stay on the phone with me. Sure. Hello . 911 we got a call from your phone do you have emergency. Yea. My husband is all right reportingly it is the chinese consulate office. What happened. There is a guy drive the car into inside. Office. Is he still there . Yea he is still here. Why at the chinese consulate. Is he injured. He is bleeding and how old is he . I think probably like around 30. He drove it into the building. Yes drove into the building and the blowing from where . I saw from his head. Is he still. Right now i got outside of the office. Is anybody else in the building injured . No. I think the body guard. Is he hurt. Security guard. Yea he is still year. Is he injured . Um im not sure. Fighting with him the guy is fighting with security. Yea. Okay. Okay. All right. Well get to safety are you able to stay in a safe place does he have weapons. Im safe what does the guy look like. Black, white, asian or latino the driver . Can