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Secretary will call the roll. [roll call] actually, commissioner, please turn on your microphone. Thank you. Ok. Great. [roll call] and i believe commissioner chow has an announcement. Yes. As many of you may know, but others may not, i want to just acknowledge all the work that commissioner [inaudible]. He had resigned for personal reasons as of the beginning of this month. For that reason we have made adjustments until we have election of officers. As you know, he was Vice President and with the concurrence of the commission, we will not vote for a new Vice President until we reach march. And meanwhile, however, dr. Patings assignments, i would like to publicly make the following assignments in place of where he was. As he was chair of community and Public Health committee, ive appointed commissioner loyce to be chair o ....
Next speaker. I want to ask the Police Department to learn the side step when someone is coming towards you, with a knife, you learn the side step. Im disabled and 79, and can do the side step, tasers and guns are not just about equal, or just about equal in the damage that they do to humans, not acceptable, period. The side step. And someone is approaching you with a little knife do the side step, thank you. Next speaker please . Michael lion, San Francisco, gray panthers are absolutely against the use of tasers by the police in any kind of way. I particularly object to the calling them nonlethal. What you are asking to do is to have a Police Officer make a snap judgment on the medical condition of someone that they are about to tase. I look fairly hail and hearty, but i have had a triple by pass, who is to make a jud ....
With the civil rights implications that the supervisors spoke of today. You know, across the nation and in San Francisco, you will see the African American communities of color are impacted by accessive use of force that would lead us to believe that once they are instituted they would also be disproportionately used against the xhupts of color. Because they are easy to use it will increase over use and officers will be use it as the first line rather than reverting to what they used in training such as verbal commands and we also have outlined many incidents of litigation that have occurred. Just some follow up questions. Did you ever get a response from the mayor on your letter . No, we did not. And any of the staff in no. I think that the letter was actually really well done and it is well documented and there are a number of citations in here, do you recall what i read t ....
Whats appropriate and when to be on the bay because so much is at stake. Thank you, joe vazquez. Governor brown says the federal government is trying to make california more dangerous. So he is taking the feds to court and it all that is to do with the states prison overcrowding problem. The situation, of course, better than a few years ago but cbs 5 reporter grace lee shows us there is still more work to be done. Reporter this goes back to 2009 when a federal panel of judges ruled that california prisons were overcrowded to the point of being unconstitutional. With the governors proclamation today he says that era is over and we should not have to comply with a federal prison population cap anymore. Today i have signed this proclamation stating that the troubled situation in california prisons has been remedied. Reporter that situation is overcrowding at the states 33 prisons with conditions so bad that a federal court ruled it was cruel and unusual punishment. The feds then ruled the ....
Rather than dangers, no tasers. I oppose the use of tasers and i am not from the city but i have friends and family here in sf and i am from southern county and i am here because i would oppose the use of tasers in my city just as would oppose it and i am taking steps to make sure that the county is addressing these concerns. And i lived in the city for series of years when i got my ba in psychology at San Francisco state and i am also a social worker. And general and i want to say that in does not take a Rocket Scientist to speculate that tasers will or will not do harm to someone who has been traumatized. It is obvious that it will. With Health Problems and heart, and traumaization that is a given. It is interesting that this is being brought up to, before the crisis team has happened. I could maybe, understand, mayb ....