it will be a nice afternoon, and warming to 80 in the east bay. looking at mount diablo, temperatures today in the 90s inland. chris. lisa, thank you. we start with developing news from san leandro where firefighters are still at the scene of a major fire that damaged several businesses late last night. the fire broke out inside a building along east 14th at georgia way near the oakland border. fire engulfed an upholstery store, quickly spreading to businesses next door including a popular san leandro jamaican restaurant called sweet fingers. the fire quickl grew to three alarms. firefighters say the conditions were extremely challenging. they had a lot of obstacles as they went into the building and it is a lot of combustibles in the building, a heavy fire load, so the fire rapidly expanded on them and they had to pull back. now they re in a defensive mode where we re trying to ex teng wish the fire from the outside. there are no injuries reported. people living on g
. president cohen: i want to welcome you to our regularly scheduled police commission meeting. it s wednesday, january 12th, 5:38 in the evening. we are excited to be here and ready to roll owl our sleeves and serve. i want to recognize vice president of there commission cindy elias. we ve got commissioner byrne, commissioner yee, and commissioner hamasaki joining us. we ve got the chief of police bill scott and the director of d.p.a. paul henderson. we ve got a full house and we re ready to rock and roll. would you please join me and put your right hand over your heart and state the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the united states of america and to the republican, one nation, under god with liberty and justice for all. president cohen: thank you. could you please call the roll. clerk: commissioner carter oberstone, [roll call] president cohen, you have a quorum. president cohen: thank you very much. i appreciate that. let s go ahead and take item one,
justice for all. president cohen: thank you. could you please call the roll. clerk: commissioner carter oberstone, [roll call] president cohen, you have a quorum. president cohen: thank you very much. i appreciate that. let s go ahead and take item one, general public comment. clerk: general public comment. the public is now welcomed to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight s agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission. under police commission rules of order during public comment neither police or d.p.a. personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. opportunity to speak during the public comment period are available via phone by calling (415) 655-0001. and enter access code 24954595515 and press pound. and then press pound again. dial star three if you wish to make a comment. this will advise the moderator that you wish t
. president cohen: i want to welcome you to our regularly scheduled police commission meeting. it s wednesday, january 12th, 5:38 in the evening. we are excited to be here and ready to roll owl our sleeves and serve. i want to recognize vice president of there commission cindy elias. we ve got commissioner byrne, commissioner yee, and commissioner hamasaki joining us. we ve got the chief of police bill scott and the director of d.p.a. paul henderson. we ve got a full house and we re ready to rock and roll. would you please join me and put your right hand over your heart and state the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the united states of america and to the republican, one nation, under god with liberty and justice for all. president cohen: thank you. could you please call the roll. clerk: commissioner carter oberstone, [roll call] president cohen, you have a quorum. president cohen: thank you very much. i appreciate that. let s go ahead and take ite
so what we need to recognize is that our use of force policy still needs serious work and our implementation of it is still uncivilized. this isn t first world, this isn t first class, and it s got a long way to go. it s still an implementation of justice meaning much to be desired. we should look to europe and we should find a way to disarm our police. clerk: thank you, caller. and that concludes public comment, president cohen. president cohen: thank you. i ll make a motion to accept department general order 5.01, the use of force policy and proper control of a person. is there a second? second made by commissioner elias, let s call the roll. clerk: yes, president cohen. on the motion to adopt d.g.o.5.01, use of force, [roll call] president cohen: thank you. please call item 8. clerk: item eight. discussion and possible action to adopt the revised department general order 6.09, domestic violence and domestic violence manual. meet and confer draft was approved by