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This is the captioner. This is the modem test. Hopefully you can see the text. As always, i will ask the presenters and the commissioners and the speakers to mute themselves until called on and ask members of the public, ill ask you to mute yourselves as well until and unless you are giving comments, that theres not feedback or background noise. Before we begin, im going to ask everyone to put your hand over your heart and well do the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]. Now at the end of this meeting im going to be asking that we adjourn in honor of a firefighter who lost his life today, jason cortez, who spent 13 years with the San Francisco fire department, married, two young children, dad was a firefighter as well, and its such a terrible loss for our city, for our community, and we want to thank him and all of those who serve, who try to help us in the community at great expense to themselves. So i will ask to adjourn ....
But just in the context of this hearing, id like to point out that the board has been so far, from what ive heard, asking a lot of questions about identifying sort of superfluous elements of the Police Budget such that can be cut, particularly in the light of this budget deficit. And these are only symptoms of a much broader problem, and lets not forget that the Biggest Issue with the police is that this is an institution that directly targets black and brown people and that the time has concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is ryan. I live in district 4. I urge for divestment of the sfpd. [indiscernible] and how education and Community Empowerment are how societies grow whereas reaction during punitive and literally oppresses people and holds bias for those struggling in so ma ....
Evil. Reporter a blow when she was to have given false statements while working for the prosecution. When the star witness was disqualified and imploded the case and they had to go solely on circumstantial evidence. Reporter that evidence logs and travel where her body was found wasnt enough to convince jurors. She was acquitted. They are disappointed. He is not guilty of killing anyone. And i want to hear in detail what the defense presented that a jury to some degree found compelling and that is that they said reporter one hour ago the teenage boy who shot five students at the high school has now died. He shot himself in the head. Investigators said it unfolded in 16 seconds. The sheriffs departments had one critical question remains unanswered. No motive or rationale has been established for the subject assault. We did not find any manifesto or diary that spelled out, any suicide note or any writings which would clearly identify his motive behind it. Tonight we are learning about th ....