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The department recently purchased 54 40mm munitions launchers and 540 impact \"sponge\" rounds for the weapons, according to city purchasing documents. The department is still researching how riot shields could help officers isolate and disarm suspects carrying knives, Suhr said. He and the mayor are also calling for a pilot of electronic stun guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers are now \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/San-Francisco-police-change-gun-policy-in-wake-of-6702064.php\" target=\"_blank\">required to report\u003c/a> whenever they point a firearm at someone as a use of force, and there are efforts underway to expand training around implicit bias, cultural competency and crisis intervention, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?recordid=1411&page=3763\" target=\"_blank\">changes grew out of meeting\u003c/a>s with the SFPD's African-American Advisory Forum, which has been meeting since May of last year on policing issues affecting San Francisco's black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has also made two bids for federal guidance and is joining a national police research organization's efforts to \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">re-engineer training around police use of force\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr requested last week that the department launch a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative reform review\u003c/a>\" with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a completely independent review,\" Suhr said. \"We’ve invited them in to look at everything we do and make recommendations as to how we can be the best department we can be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee directed the department to join the White House's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/10/27/police-data-initiative-5-month-update\" target=\"_blank\">Police Data Initiative\u003c/a>, which is collecting criminal justice statistics from \u003ca href=\"http://publicsafetydataportal.org/participating-agencies/\" target=\"_blank\">29 police departments\u003c/a> around the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Police Commission President Suzy Loftus will join Suhr, a contingent of SFPD brass and city leaders on a trip to Washington, D.C., next week to collect recommendations from the Police Executive Research Forum on changing police use-of-force practices nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we’re opening up this conversation of our use-of-force policies -- and PERF is helping us look at those -- there’s actually something much bigger happening, which is this question of, 'Is how we’re doing this at all the best way to do it?' \" Loftus said. \"We’re bringing in experts, because it is something that is of concern to all of us. We want to keep everybody safe. We want to do this right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loftus said groups of two or three police commissioners will also host a series of community meetings throughout the city this month to collect public input in time for the mayor's deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some commissioners said they were concerned with such a speedy timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m just wondering whether we can get this done by Feb. 15,\" Commissioner Victor Hwang said. \"I know the mayor wants to have something done, but it’s not something we can just fix by throwing money at it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Joe Marshall said he's committed to changing any policy that would justify the Mario Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are on a fast track here, and my only concern is I want to do it right,\" he said. \"Doing it fast and doing it right -- it’s one or the other, so we have to make sure we do both. We gotta do it quickly and we gotta do it right.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"letter\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Read the mayor's letter below. See SFPD's list of changes implemented and underway \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?recordid=1411&page=3763\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[scribd id=294851874 key=key-DHvUCHSHuXOaVF1TFb2R mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ted Goldberg of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has set a Feb. 15 deadline for city law enforcement leadership to deliver \"any reforms that require new laws or expenditures,\" as the Police Department and Police Commission launch multiple efforts examining use-of-force and training policies following the deadly shooting of Mario Woods last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor sent a \u003ca href=\"#letter\">letter\u003c/a> to the city's Board of Supervisors Wednesday urging quick changes to create \"a city where no preventable officer-involved shootings occur and where every community feels respected, justly treated and safer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">Bystander video\u003c/a> captured a large group of officers with guns drawn surrounding Woods, a 26-year-old black man, in San Francisco's Bayview district on Dec. 2. \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?recordid=1396&page=3763\" target=\"_blank\">Police say\u003c/a> Woods had a knife and was suspected of stabbing someone earlier that day. They say Woods didn't comply with commands to drop the knife and didn't respond to pepper spray or multiple barrages of \"less lethal\" impact rounds. As he began to walk away from the largest group of police, an officer stepped into his path, and five officers fired, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">Attorneys for Woods' family\u003c/a>, who have examined his body, say he appears to have been shot approximately 20 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting has galvanized long-standing criticism of racial bias in the San Francisco Police Department. SFPD arrests a highly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/report-african-american-adults-seven-times-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">disparate number of African-Americans\u003c/a> and was rocked by several racially charged scandals in 2015, including the exposure of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist text messages\u003c/a> sent by a group of officers advocating violence against black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/hundreds-at-meeting-call-for-suhrs-ouster-after-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">sustained calls\u003c/a> for Police Chief Greg Suhr's ouster, and activists plan to protest Lee's inauguration on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The shooting of Mario Woods has for many residents shaken the trust in this city’s Police Department,\" Chief Greg Suhr said during a Police Commission meeting Wednesday night. \"We understand that we do need to do everything we can do to prevent this from occurring again, including reviewing all policies and procedures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Suhr and Lee mentioned several efforts already underway. The department recently purchased 54 40mm munitions launchers and 540 impact \"sponge\" rounds for the weapons, according to city purchasing documents. The department is still researching how riot shields could help officers isolate and disarm suspects carrying knives, Suhr said. He and the mayor are also calling for a pilot of electronic stun guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers are now \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/San-Francisco-police-change-gun-policy-in-wake-of-6702064.php\" target=\"_blank\">required to report\u003c/a> whenever they point a firearm at someone as a use of force, and there are efforts underway to expand training around implicit bias, cultural competency and crisis intervention, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?recordid=1411&page=3763\" target=\"_blank\">changes grew out of meeting\u003c/a>s with the SFPD's African-American Advisory Forum, which has been meeting since May of last year on policing issues affecting San Francisco's black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has also made two bids for federal guidance and is joining a national police research organization's efforts to \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">re-engineer training around police use of force\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr requested last week that the department launch a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative reform review\u003c/a>\" with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a completely independent review,\" Suhr said. \"We’ve invited them in to look at everything we do and make recommendations as to how we can be the best department we can be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee directed the department to join the White House's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/10/27/police-data-initiative-5-month-update\" target=\"_blank\">Police Data Initiative\u003c/a>, which is collecting criminal justice statistics from \u003ca href=\"http://publicsafetydataportal.org/participating-agencies/\" target=\"_blank\">29 police departments\u003c/a> around the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Police Commission President Suzy Loftus will join Suhr, a contingent of SFPD brass and city leaders on a trip to Washington, D.C., next week to collect recommendations from the Police Executive Research Forum on changing police use-of-force practices nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we’re opening up this conversation of our use-of-force policies -- and PERF is helping us look at those -- there’s actually something much bigger happening, which is this question of, 'Is how we’re doing this at all the best way to do it?' \" Loftus said. \"We’re bringing in experts, because it is something that is of concern to all of us. We want to keep everybody safe. We want to do this right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loftus said groups of two or three police commissioners will also host a series of community meetings throughout the city this month to collect public input in time for the mayor's deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some commissioners said they were concerned with such a speedy timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m just wondering whether we can get this done by Feb. 15,\" Commissioner Victor Hwang said. \"I know the mayor wants to have something done, but it’s not something we can just fix by throwing money at it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Joe Marshall said he's committed to changing any policy that would justify the Mario Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are on a fast track here, and my only concern is I want to do it right,\" he said. \"Doing it fast and doing it right -- it’s one or the other, so we have to make sure we do both. 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District Attorney George Gascón said the officers avoided discipline \"due to a massive breakdown in SFPD’s process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón's office is reviewing close to 4,000 cases in which the officers participated for potential bias that could overturn convictions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldsmith ruled last month that the texts were unrelated to Furminger's crimes, and therefore were not exempt from the statute of limitations. In announcing the city's appeal, Herrera said Goldsmith ignored testimony from two former federal prosecutors who worked on the Furminger investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The decision held that a San Francisco police lieutenant was actually obliged to stop assisting with the Furminger investigation, turn over text messages obtained by search warrant from Furminger’s phone, and initiate an administrative investigation into other officers’ misconduct -- even in the face of sworn testimony by the U.S. Attorney’s Office that such an illegal use of confidential grand jury material would subject that lieutenant to criminal prosecution,\" Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San Francisco criminal justice leaders have criticized the Police Department's agreement with federal prosecutors to keep the evidence secret and delay disciplining officers for the vulgar text messages. District Attorney George Gascón said the officers avoided discipline \"due to a massive breakdown in SFPD’s process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón's office is reviewing close to 4,000 cases in which the officers participated for potential bias that could overturn convictions. A spokesman said in late December that the office dismissed 13 pending cases in the wake of the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would like to see those officers not come back to the Police Department,\" Gascón told KQED Tuesday, adding that he supports the city attorney's appeal. \"The concern is we probably shouldn’t be here in the first place, but that is water under the bridge now, so I think that we need to move forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Department leadership, including Police Chief Greg Suhr, have said the department followed protocol and rightly waited to pursue discipline to protect the Furminger criminal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the nine officers in the case face termination, although it's difficult to know exactly how many due to protections in the Peace Officers Bill of Rights that keep police personnel information secret and an expansive protective order issued in the Superior Court case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldsmith ordered all the officers placed on paid, rather than unpaid, leave last summer, where they remain according to one of the officer's attorneys. Alison Berry Wilkinson said the Superior Court case isn't over -- the officers will likely seek up to $25,000 each in civil penalties against the city, and so the appeal is premature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city can’t figure out what the laws of California are,\" she told KQED Tuesday. \"They didn’t follow the statute of limitations, and they don’t follow the appeal rules.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson noted that the California Court of Appeal has already twice denied the city's requests to intervene in the Superior Court case.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith ruled Monday that the Police Department waited too long to pursue disciplining a group of officers who swapped bigoted text messages and that the officers cannot be fired or otherwise punished for the alleged misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldsmith ruled in favor of nine officers challenging the city and Police Department’s attempt to mete out discipline for a variety of racist, homophobic and otherwise inappropriate messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the officers successfully argued that the department knew about the texts by late 2012 but didn’t investigate until early 2015 -- long overshooting a one-year state statute of limitations to bring charges of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court finds it’s not in the public interest to let police misconduct cases languish,” Goldsmith said from the bench, adding that there was “good reason” for that provision of the California Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights. “To promptly investigate and adjudicate police misconduct -- this is an important protection for the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238705542\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for San Francisco argue that the time limit for a disciplinary action is paused when it overlaps or conflicts with a criminal investigation. They say that's what happened in this case, which involved a federal investigation that led to the conviction of former Sgt. Ian Furminger and two subordinates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Goldsmith said the pause would apply only if the officers' texts had something to do with the Furminger case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is trying to piggyback on the Furminger investigation,” Goldsmith said, adding that there was no connection between the offensive text messages and Furminger’s crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's lawyers pointed out that Police Department investigators who knew about the text messages and other evidence in the Furminger probe were sworn to secrecy by federal prosecutors, and the delay in punishing the officers was warranted to protect that investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Practically speaking, I think this is the death knell for San Francisco Police Department investigators to participate in federal criminal investigations,” Deputy City Attorney Kenneth Walczak told Goldsmith. He said SFPD investigators assigned to the Furminger case \"were threatened with federal criminal prosecution\" if they divulged anything about the probe to their own department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the officers who were facing firing have been on paid leave since Goldsmith ordered them back on the city payroll in May. Two of their attorneys said it’s unclear whether they would be allowed back to work or in what role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can’t happen is that these texts can’t be considered against them,” said attorney Tony Brass, who represents Officer Michael Celis. He called Goldsmith’s ruling a “mixed victory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one is celebrating a victory for that kind of misconduct,\" Brass said. \"That’s not what this case is about. What this case is about is the Police Department has an obligation to investigate that conduct in a timely fashion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walczak declined to say whether the city would appeal, but Police Chief Greg Suhr told KQED’s Sara Hossaini that the ruling would be challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These officers should not be police officers,” Suhr said. “They clearly fall below the minimum standard required, and we will appeal. ... It’s a process, but I don’t want them in this Police Department and neither do the police officers in the Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith issued a tentative ruling Friday afternoon in favor of nine officers challenging the city’s effort to discipline them for swapping racist and otherwise offensive text messages with a convicted ex-sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers argued that the city is in violation of a statute of limitations in a state law that grants labor protections to public safety officers. The law requires police departments to complete an investigation into officer misconduct within one year of learning about any transgression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department, the court ruled, knew about the offensive text messages in December 2012, when a small circle of officers in SFPD’s Internal Affairs Division joined a federal investigation of former Sgt. Ian Furminger and two of his subordinates in the Mission District plainclothes unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'San Francisco Police Department’s unwritten policy, that the IAD-Admin Division is solely responsible for conducting administrative investigations of police misconduct, did not excuse the department’s failure to conduct the investigation in a timely manner.'\u003ccite>Ernest Goldsmith,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Superior Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>No disciplinary charges were brought against the officers in the texting scandal until April of this year. The city argued the delay was necessary to protect the investigation against Furminger until he was convicted, which happened in December 2014, and two former federal prosecutors filed declarations to that effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argued that the administrative wing of Internal Affairs, which handles officer discipline, was kept in the dark about the texts until after Furminger’s conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco Police Department’s unwritten policy, that the IAD-Admin Division is solely responsible for conducting administrative investigations of police misconduct, did not excuse the department’s failure to conduct the investigation in a timely manner,” Goldsmith wrote in his tentative ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argued that the time limit pauses -- or “tolls” in the statute’s language -- when the conduct at issue is part of a criminal investigation or prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[T]he tolling exception provided in Government Sec. 3304(d)(1)(A) did not apply in the instant case because the Petitioners [officers], their conduct, and their text messages were not the subject of a criminal investigation,” Goldsmith wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge appears likely to finally approve the officers’ petition at a hearing scheduled for Monday, which includes a call for the department to rescind all disciplinary charges against the officers, purge all documents supporting the case against them and pay each officer a civil penalty of up to $25,000, plus the cost of their lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 18:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months after a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/court-to-hear-sfpd-racist-texting-case-officers-back-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">judge stopped\u003c/a> the San Francisco Police Department from firing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">seven officers\u003c/a> accused of sending racist, sexist and homophobic text messages, the officers' legal challenge to their dismissal appears headed for a final decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two additional officers facing lesser discipline have also joined the San Francisco Superior Court case scheduled for a hearing Monday. All nine are challenging the department's attempt to punish them under a one-year state statute of limitations for disciplining peace officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the officers are contesting charges that they exchanged \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">offensive text messages\u003c/a> with former Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges a year ago. Federal prosecutors made a sampling of the text messages public in March. The officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">use a variety of slurs\u003c/a> to refer to African-Americans, Latinos, women and LGBT people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"KDkgYPlzt8U7uyOhiebhJYo0Iv0yyNMs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one exchange in May 2012, an unidentified officer responds to Furminger's complaint that a friend of his wife's brought her attorney husband, who is black, to dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Get ur pocket gun,\" the officer texted Furminger. \"Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots. Its not against the law to put an animal down. ... U may have to kill the half breed kids too. Don't worry. Their an abomination of nature anyway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has likely been paying that officer's salary while on administrative leave since May, despite the department's attempt to terminate him and several others for conduct unbecoming an officer. But the officer's exact status is unknown because any information relating to discipline in the case is sealed under a protective order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the officers' challenge is ultimately successful, they've been able to delay discipline for the better part of a year, thanks to attorneys provided by their union and a state law that provides sweeping protections to police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Law's Statute of Limitations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine officers are relying on a provision of the California \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\">Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights\u003c/a> that states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[N]o punitive action, nor denial of promotion on grounds other than merit, shall be undertaken for any act, omission, or other allegation of misconduct if the investigation of the allegation is not completed within one year of the public agency's discovery by a person authorized to initiate an investigation of the allegation of an act, omission, or other misconduct.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/12/s-f-officers-accused-in-text-messaging-scandal-ask-judge-to-stop-firings\" target=\"_blank\">officers argue\u003c/a> the Police Department was in possession of the offensive texts, along with volumes of other evidence in the case against Furminger, by December 2012, but failed to act until April of this year after some of the texts were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the legal challenge has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/court-to-hear-sfpd-racist-texting-case-officers-back-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">enjoyed some success\u003c/a> in the form of a stay issued in May by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith. He halted disciplinary proceedings before the city's Police Commission and required that the officers involved in the case be placed on paid, rather than unpaid, leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only officially named plaintiff in the case, Officer Rain Daugherty, made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Rain+Daugherty\" target=\"_blank\">$164,290.19\u003c/a> in total pay and benefits last year, according to state salary data curated on the website Transparent California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other unofficially identified officers facing dismissal include Capt. Jason Fox, who in 2014 made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Jason+G+Fox&y=\" target=\"_blank\">$258,699.07\u003c/a> and Sgt. Michael Wibunsin, who made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Michael+Wibunsin\" target=\"_blank\">$242,448.53\u003c/a> that year in total pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Furminger Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal investigation that led to the convictions of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">Furminger\u003c/a> and two of his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/21/one-year-sentence-for-former-s-f-cop-who-testified-against-colleagues\" target=\"_blank\">subordinates\u003c/a> in the Mission District plainclothes division lasted much longer than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of that investigation -- and when exactly the Police Department started its investigation of the texting scandal -- is central to the arguments of the nine officers fighting dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"JhFDUdwzrm7NSJ8uB3h4BxqN2V9kzUw8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi began releasing a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-video-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">series of surveillance videos\u003c/a> from single-resident-occupancy hotels in 2010 that appeared to show plainclothes officers illegally searching rooms and -- in some cases -- removing property that they never booked into evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By April 2011, when Greg Suhr became San Francisco's police chief, the department's investigation into the apparently illegal searches was underway, according to the chief's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/293578851/Greg-Suhr-Declaration-Daugherty-v-CCSF-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">declaration\u003c/a> in the texting case, filed earlier this month. But federal law enforcement -- namely the FBI and Northern California U.S. Attorney's Office -- wanted to take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, they did, enlisting the help of a handful of criminal investigators from the Police Department's Internal Affairs Division \"to provide expertise regarding the activities and conduct of police officers generally and more specifically within the SFPD organization,\" former Assistant U.S. Attorney Drew Caputo wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/293579008/Drew-Caputo-Declaration-Daugherty-v-CCSF-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">declaration to the court\u003c/a>. \"To avoid potential conflicts of interest, we set clear limits on the extent to which information related to the criminal investigation would be shared within SFPD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his declaration, Suhr says the department set up a \"wall\" between the Internal Affairs Division (IAD) criminal and administrative investigators as the Furminger probe continued. To preserve the integrity of the Furminger case, he added, proceedings against the officers involved in the texting scandal wound up being delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a person who is a subject of a criminal investigation is alerted to the existence of that investigation -- whether the subject is a potential witness, suspect, or target of the investigation -- the integrity of the investigation is compromised,\" Suhr wrote. \"The subject changes his or her behavior to avoid detection, and the investigators lose their ability to gather critical evidence. ... [I]t is clear to me that, had SFPD initiated any disciplinary investigation before the criminal investigation concluded, the federal prosecutors might well have lost the ability to make their criminal case against Furminger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Choices Have Consequences'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the nine officers have zeroed in on the delay in the disciplinary case as a violation to the one-year deadline for taking action against their clients. They argue that the clock on the disciplinary case should have started in December 2012, by which time the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office had shared secret evidence in the Furminger case -- including the offensive texts -- with the IAD's criminal investigators. The city argues the clock started just last December, after Furminger was convicted and the text messages were disclosed to the rest of the Internal Affairs Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Daugherty's attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson, said in an interview Thursday that by agreeing to keep the evidence secret, the department chose to place the criminal investigation ahead of any potential officer discipline and thus \"jettisoned their responsibility under the Police Officers Bill of Rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Choices have consequences,\" she said. \"They made the choice to agree to that, and the consequence is that they knew that information but didn't act in a timely manner on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco Deputy City Attorney Kenneth Walczak says that both federal and local law enforcement did everything \"by the book.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in an interview the officers are trying to \"paint a picture of a plot by the Police Department to sit on evidence and delay disciplining them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walczak said the officers' arguments are not only unrealistic but also clearly exempted in the Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights, which allows for the \"tolling,\" or pause, to the statute of limitations while a related criminal investigation and prosecution are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That state law provides a panoply of rights to peace officers who are accused of wrongdoing by their employer,\" he said -- but argued the protections don't apply in the texting case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The investigation here was two things that exempt it from the ambit of the peace officers bill of rights,\" Walczak said. \"It was both criminal and federal.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith ruled Monday that the Police Department waited too long to pursue disciplining a group of officers who swapped bigoted text messages and that the officers cannot be fired or otherwise punished for the alleged misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldsmith ruled in favor of nine officers challenging the city and Police Department’s attempt to mete out discipline for a variety of racist, homophobic and otherwise inappropriate messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the officers successfully argued that the department knew about the texts by late 2012 but didn’t investigate until early 2015 -- long overshooting a one-year state statute of limitations to bring charges of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court finds it’s not in the public interest to let police misconduct cases languish,” Goldsmith said from the bench, adding that there was “good reason” for that provision of the California Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights. “To promptly investigate and adjudicate police misconduct -- this is an important protection for the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238705542&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238705542'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for San Francisco argue that the time limit for a disciplinary action is paused when it overlaps or conflicts with a criminal investigation. They say that's what happened in this case, which involved a federal investigation that led to the conviction of former Sgt. Ian Furminger and two subordinates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Goldsmith said the pause would apply only if the officers' texts had something to do with the Furminger case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is trying to piggyback on the Furminger investigation,” Goldsmith said, adding that there was no connection between the offensive text messages and Furminger’s crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's lawyers pointed out that Police Department investigators who knew about the text messages and other evidence in the Furminger probe were sworn to secrecy by federal prosecutors, and the delay in punishing the officers was warranted to protect that investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Practically speaking, I think this is the death knell for San Francisco Police Department investigators to participate in federal criminal investigations,” Deputy City Attorney Kenneth Walczak told Goldsmith. He said SFPD investigators assigned to the Furminger case \"were threatened with federal criminal prosecution\" if they divulged anything about the probe to their own department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the officers who were facing firing have been on paid leave since Goldsmith ordered them back on the city payroll in May. Two of their attorneys said it’s unclear whether they would be allowed back to work or in what role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can’t happen is that these texts can’t be considered against them,” said attorney Tony Brass, who represents Officer Michael Celis. He called Goldsmith’s ruling a “mixed victory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one is celebrating a victory for that kind of misconduct,\" Brass said. \"That’s not what this case is about. What this case is about is the Police Department has an obligation to investigate that conduct in a timely fashion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walczak declined to say whether the city would appeal, but Police Chief Greg Suhr told KQED’s Sara Hossaini that the ruling would be challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These officers should not be police officers,” Suhr said. “They clearly fall below the minimum standard required, and we will appeal. ... It’s a process, but I don’t want them in this Police Department and neither do the police officers in the Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith issued a tentative ruling Friday afternoon in favor of nine officers challenging the city’s effort to discipline them for swapping racist and otherwise offensive text messages with a convicted ex-sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers argued that the city is in violation of a statute of limitations in a state law that grants labor protections to public safety officers. The law requires police departments to complete an investigation into officer misconduct within one year of learning about any transgression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department, the court ruled, knew about the offensive text messages in December 2012, when a small circle of officers in SFPD’s Internal Affairs Division joined a federal investigation of former Sgt. Ian Furminger and two of his subordinates in the Mission District plainclothes unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'San Francisco Police Department’s unwritten policy, that the IAD-Admin Division is solely responsible for conducting administrative investigations of police misconduct, did not excuse the department’s failure to conduct the investigation in a timely manner.'\u003ccite>Ernest Goldsmith,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Superior Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>No disciplinary charges were brought against the officers in the texting scandal until April of this year. The city argued the delay was necessary to protect the investigation against Furminger until he was convicted, which happened in December 2014, and two former federal prosecutors filed declarations to that effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argued that the administrative wing of Internal Affairs, which handles officer discipline, was kept in the dark about the texts until after Furminger’s conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco Police Department’s unwritten policy, that the IAD-Admin Division is solely responsible for conducting administrative investigations of police misconduct, did not excuse the department’s failure to conduct the investigation in a timely manner,” Goldsmith wrote in his tentative ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argued that the time limit pauses -- or “tolls” in the statute’s language -- when the conduct at issue is part of a criminal investigation or prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[T]he tolling exception provided in Government Sec. 3304(d)(1)(A) did not apply in the instant case because the Petitioners [officers], their conduct, and their text messages were not the subject of a criminal investigation,” Goldsmith wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge appears likely to finally approve the officers’ petition at a hearing scheduled for Monday, which includes a call for the department to rescind all disciplinary charges against the officers, purge all documents supporting the case against them and pay each officer a civil penalty of up to $25,000, plus the cost of their lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 18:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months after a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/court-to-hear-sfpd-racist-texting-case-officers-back-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">judge stopped\u003c/a> the San Francisco Police Department from firing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">seven officers\u003c/a> accused of sending racist, sexist and homophobic text messages, the officers' legal challenge to their dismissal appears headed for a final decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two additional officers facing lesser discipline have also joined the San Francisco Superior Court case scheduled for a hearing Monday. All nine are challenging the department's attempt to punish them under a one-year state statute of limitations for disciplining peace officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the officers are contesting charges that they exchanged \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">offensive text messages\u003c/a> with former Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges a year ago. Federal prosecutors made a sampling of the text messages public in March. The officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">use a variety of slurs\u003c/a> to refer to African-Americans, Latinos, women and LGBT people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one exchange in May 2012, an unidentified officer responds to Furminger's complaint that a friend of his wife's brought her attorney husband, who is black, to dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Get ur pocket gun,\" the officer texted Furminger. \"Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots. Its not against the law to put an animal down. ... U may have to kill the half breed kids too. Don't worry. Their an abomination of nature anyway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has likely been paying that officer's salary while on administrative leave since May, despite the department's attempt to terminate him and several others for conduct unbecoming an officer. But the officer's exact status is unknown because any information relating to discipline in the case is sealed under a protective order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the officers' challenge is ultimately successful, they've been able to delay discipline for the better part of a year, thanks to attorneys provided by their union and a state law that provides sweeping protections to police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Law's Statute of Limitations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine officers are relying on a provision of the California \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\">Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights\u003c/a> that states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[N]o punitive action, nor denial of promotion on grounds other than merit, shall be undertaken for any act, omission, or other allegation of misconduct if the investigation of the allegation is not completed within one year of the public agency's discovery by a person authorized to initiate an investigation of the allegation of an act, omission, or other misconduct.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/12/s-f-officers-accused-in-text-messaging-scandal-ask-judge-to-stop-firings\" target=\"_blank\">officers argue\u003c/a> the Police Department was in possession of the offensive texts, along with volumes of other evidence in the case against Furminger, by December 2012, but failed to act until April of this year after some of the texts were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the legal challenge has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/court-to-hear-sfpd-racist-texting-case-officers-back-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">enjoyed some success\u003c/a> in the form of a stay issued in May by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith. He halted disciplinary proceedings before the city's Police Commission and required that the officers involved in the case be placed on paid, rather than unpaid, leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only officially named plaintiff in the case, Officer Rain Daugherty, made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Rain+Daugherty\" target=\"_blank\">$164,290.19\u003c/a> in total pay and benefits last year, according to state salary data curated on the website Transparent California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other unofficially identified officers facing dismissal include Capt. Jason Fox, who in 2014 made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Jason+G+Fox&y=\" target=\"_blank\">$258,699.07\u003c/a> and Sgt. Michael Wibunsin, who made \u003ca href=\"http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Michael+Wibunsin\" target=\"_blank\">$242,448.53\u003c/a> that year in total pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Furminger Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal investigation that led to the convictions of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">Furminger\u003c/a> and two of his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/21/one-year-sentence-for-former-s-f-cop-who-testified-against-colleagues\" target=\"_blank\">subordinates\u003c/a> in the Mission District plainclothes division lasted much longer than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of that investigation -- and when exactly the Police Department started its investigation of the texting scandal -- is central to the arguments of the nine officers fighting dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi began releasing a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-video-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">series of surveillance videos\u003c/a> from single-resident-occupancy hotels in 2010 that appeared to show plainclothes officers illegally searching rooms and -- in some cases -- removing property that they never booked into evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By April 2011, when Greg Suhr became San Francisco's police chief, the department's investigation into the apparently illegal searches was underway, according to the chief's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/293578851/Greg-Suhr-Declaration-Daugherty-v-CCSF-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">declaration\u003c/a> in the texting case, filed earlier this month. But federal law enforcement -- namely the FBI and Northern California U.S. Attorney's Office -- wanted to take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, they did, enlisting the help of a handful of criminal investigators from the Police Department's Internal Affairs Division \"to provide expertise regarding the activities and conduct of police officers generally and more specifically within the SFPD organization,\" former Assistant U.S. Attorney Drew Caputo wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/293579008/Drew-Caputo-Declaration-Daugherty-v-CCSF-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">declaration to the court\u003c/a>. \"To avoid potential conflicts of interest, we set clear limits on the extent to which information related to the criminal investigation would be shared within SFPD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his declaration, Suhr says the department set up a \"wall\" between the Internal Affairs Division (IAD) criminal and administrative investigators as the Furminger probe continued. To preserve the integrity of the Furminger case, he added, proceedings against the officers involved in the texting scandal wound up being delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a person who is a subject of a criminal investigation is alerted to the existence of that investigation -- whether the subject is a potential witness, suspect, or target of the investigation -- the integrity of the investigation is compromised,\" Suhr wrote. \"The subject changes his or her behavior to avoid detection, and the investigators lose their ability to gather critical evidence. ... [I]t is clear to me that, had SFPD initiated any disciplinary investigation before the criminal investigation concluded, the federal prosecutors might well have lost the ability to make their criminal case against Furminger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Choices Have Consequences'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the nine officers have zeroed in on the delay in the disciplinary case as a violation to the one-year deadline for taking action against their clients. They argue that the clock on the disciplinary case should have started in December 2012, by which time the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office had shared secret evidence in the Furminger case -- including the offensive texts -- with the IAD's criminal investigators. The city argues the clock started just last December, after Furminger was convicted and the text messages were disclosed to the rest of the Internal Affairs Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Daugherty's attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson, said in an interview Thursday that by agreeing to keep the evidence secret, the department chose to place the criminal investigation ahead of any potential officer discipline and thus \"jettisoned their responsibility under the Police Officers Bill of Rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Choices have consequences,\" she said. \"They made the choice to agree to that, and the consequence is that they knew that information but didn't act in a timely manner on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco Deputy City Attorney Kenneth Walczak says that both federal and local law enforcement did everything \"by the book.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in an interview the officers are trying to \"paint a picture of a plot by the Police Department to sit on evidence and delay disciplining them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walczak said the officers' arguments are not only unrealistic but also clearly exempted in the Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights, which allows for the \"tolling,\" or pause, to the statute of limitations while a related criminal investigation and prosecution are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That state law provides a panoply of rights to peace officers who are accused of wrongdoing by their employer,\" he said -- but argued the protections don't apply in the texting case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two of the officers identified by the San Francisco Police Department as being involved in the fatal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/s-f-police-chief-public-defender-clash-over-latest-fatal-cop-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Dec. 2 shooting\u003c/a> of Mario Woods have faced federal lawsuits alleging excessive force, court documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers, Charles August and Nicholas Cuevas, are among five the Police Department says opened fire on Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five were part of a contingent of a dozen or more officers who confronted Woods, 26, near the corner of Third and Fitzgerald streets in the city's Bayview district. Police say Woods was a suspect in a stabbing several blocks away and was carrying a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade when officers spotted him. Police say he refused to drop the weapon even after officers shot him with \"less-lethal\" beanbag rounds and pepper-sprayed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August and Cuevas, as well as Officers Winson Seto, Antonio Santos and Scott Phillips, opened fire after Woods, a neighborhood resident, walked toward August, who had stepped into his path in an apparent attempt to stop him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August is among seven officers sued in federal court last year by a Bayview resident named David Lloyd, who says he suffered a broken ankle and other injuries in an encounter outside a neighborhood store. Lloyd's suit alleges a group of plainclothes officers who were engaged in making an arrest outside the store started harassing him and stopped him from getting his bicycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">Video Evidence Appears to Contradict SFPD Account of Mario Woods Shooting\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ij5TZuohoRg\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nRead more about KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">slow-motion video analysis\u003c/a> that appears to show Woods moving his arm only after the first shots are audible.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Then Officer Charles August (in uniform) arrived at the scene and began to push Mr. Lloyd ... Then within a minute, Defendant Charles AUGUST slammed Mr. Lloyd onto the ground. Mr. Lloyd hit his head on the ground and had his belly fully pressed against the ground. Immediately, five other police officers at the scene jumped on top of Mr. Lloyd and all police officers began to beat him by punching and kicking him while he was subdued on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 45 seconds, Defendant police officers had handcuffed Mr. Lloyd. Nevertheless, Defendant police officers continued to beat Mr. Lloyd relentlessly for almost four minutes after he had been handcuffed and neutralized as a potential threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Mr. Lloyd suffered a fractured left ankle, injured knee, injured back, and severe bruises and scratches throughout his body. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was then taken to the police station and charged with resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All criminal charges against Mr. Lloyd were later dismissed by the District Attorney's office.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lloyd has reached a settlement with the the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, but it has not yet been finalized. The city's Police Commission deliberated the case in closed session on Dec. 9, at the same meeting where they heard about four hours of public comment on the Mario Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August was awarded the Police Department's bronze Medal of Valor in 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/12/14/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-sfpd-officers-who-shot-and-killed-mario-woods#more\" target=\"_blank\">SF Weekly reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuevas faces a federal civil rights suit arising from a 2009 incident when he was an officer with the Antioch Police Department. Contra Costa County prosecutors say Cuevas opened fire on a car driven by Barry White Jr. after White tried to run him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after the incident, wound up being shot in the head, ear and back. In a 2011 complaint filed against the city of Antioch, its Police Department and several officers, including Cuevas, White said the officer fired without provocation and without identifying himself. In fact, White alleged, Cuevas had \"tried to brutally murder three African-American men.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"caob8kPdEoTF0IwxrwhRxuPTWcMIeLar\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The three men [including White] had their backs turned to the officer when he shot them through the rear driver's side window and rear windshield of Mr. White's vehicle. Mr. White sustained gunshot wounds to his head and ear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men managed to escape from the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Cuevas pursued the men. He shot Mr. White in the back and left him for dead in a pool of blood. Mr. Anderson narrowly escaped death when a bullet pierced the peak of his cap. Mr. Longsworth was shot in the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. White was found by officers of the Antioch Police Department 90 minutes later in a pool of blood and transported to the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. White suffered gunshot wounds to his head, ear, and back as a direct result of Officer Nicholas Cuevas' use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>White is currently jailed in San Francisco, having been charged with two counts of murder in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23979103/antioch-barry-white-jr-s-road-double-murder\" target=\"_blank\">a harrowing 2013 gun and knife attack\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White's federal civil rights lawsuit is on hold while his criminal charges are adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco did not respond to KQED's inquiries about the years of service for each of the officers involved in the Woods shooting. 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Then within a minute, Defendant Charles AUGUST slammed Mr. Lloyd onto the ground. Mr. Lloyd hit his head on the ground and had his belly fully pressed against the ground. Immediately, five other police officers at the scene jumped on top of Mr. Lloyd and all police officers began to beat him by punching and kicking him while he was subdued on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 45 seconds, Defendant police officers had handcuffed Mr. Lloyd. Nevertheless, Defendant police officers continued to beat Mr. Lloyd relentlessly for almost four minutes after he had been handcuffed and neutralized as a potential threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Mr. Lloyd suffered a fractured left ankle, injured knee, injured back, and severe bruises and scratches throughout his body. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was then taken to the police station and charged with resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All criminal charges against Mr. Lloyd were later dismissed by the District Attorney's office.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lloyd has reached a settlement with the the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, but it has not yet been finalized. The city's Police Commission deliberated the case in closed session on Dec. 9, at the same meeting where they heard about four hours of public comment on the Mario Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>August was awarded the Police Department's bronze Medal of Valor in 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/12/14/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-sfpd-officers-who-shot-and-killed-mario-woods#more\" target=\"_blank\">SF Weekly reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuevas faces a federal civil rights suit arising from a 2009 incident when he was an officer with the Antioch Police Department. Contra Costa County prosecutors say Cuevas opened fire on a car driven by Barry White Jr. after White tried to run him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after the incident, wound up being shot in the head, ear and back. In a 2011 complaint filed against the city of Antioch, its Police Department and several officers, including Cuevas, White said the officer fired without provocation and without identifying himself. In fact, White alleged, Cuevas had \"tried to brutally murder three African-American men.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The three men [including White] had their backs turned to the officer when he shot them through the rear driver's side window and rear windshield of Mr. White's vehicle. Mr. White sustained gunshot wounds to his head and ear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men managed to escape from the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Cuevas pursued the men. He shot Mr. White in the back and left him for dead in a pool of blood. Mr. Anderson narrowly escaped death when a bullet pierced the peak of his cap. Mr. Longsworth was shot in the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. White was found by officers of the Antioch Police Department 90 minutes later in a pool of blood and transported to the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. White suffered gunshot wounds to his head, ear, and back as a direct result of Officer Nicholas Cuevas' use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>White is currently jailed in San Francisco, having been charged with two counts of murder in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23979103/antioch-barry-white-jr-s-road-double-murder\" target=\"_blank\">a harrowing 2013 gun and knife attack\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White's federal civil rights lawsuit is on hold while his criminal charges are adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco did not respond to KQED's inquiries about the years of service for each of the officers involved in the Woods shooting. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:55 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department has identified five officers involved in the shooting of Mario Woods Dec. 2. Their names are Winson Seto, Antonio Santos, Charles August, Nicholas Cuevas and Scott Phillips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All five officers remain on administrative leave, according to SFPD Sgt. Michael Andraychak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, Updated 5:40 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing the mother of a 26-year-old Bayview man killed by several San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/s-f-police-chief-public-defender-clash-over-latest-fatal-cop-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">police officers last week\u003c/a> called the shooting of Mario Woods a \"public execution\" and \"shooting gallery\" while announcing a federal wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit against the city Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gwendolyn Woods, Mario Woods' mother, spoke briefly at the press conference where the lawsuit was announced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was the best to me,\" she said, struggling to speak while crying, \"and he redeemed himself. He did, and he was the best to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Previously Unpublished Video:\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ADr7I8m0HNA\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Woods was reportedly shot 21 times by five officers on Dec. 2 in San Francisco's Bayview District. Police say he was a suspect in a stabbing earlier that day and refused to drop a small knife when confronted by a line of officers. Police say officers shot Woods with \"less-lethal\" beanbag rounds and pepper-sprayed him before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least four bystander videos of the shooting have been posted online. Civil rights attorney John Burris unveiled the fourth Friday after referencing a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">KQED News analysis\u003c/a> of previously known videos that appeared to contradict Police Chief Greg Suhr's statements about the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at a Dec. 4 town hall meeting on the shooting that Woods was holding a knife and raised his arm toward an officer before police opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"KQED presented a video that’s been displayed, and in that video it’s pretty clear that the shots occurred before he in fact -- Mario -- raised his hand,\" Burris said, \"indicating that the statements given by the police chief were clearly bogus, and were designed clearly to cover for the officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has not responded to multiple KQED inquiries about the apparent contradiction, but Sgt. Michael Andraychak responded Friday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chief Suhr has been clear on this point and that in the Department's assessment of the video, when slowed down, it appears that Mr. Woods is extending his right arm as he moves forward and the officer moves backwards,\" Andraychak wrote in an emailed response. \"All evidence including videos, witness statements and items spoken to by Mr. Burris will be followed up on by investigators.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said the chief's credibility has been called into question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you make false statements about an event that you know at the time that you made the statements were false, then of course you should resign,\" Burris said, echoing a growing call for Suhr to step down. \"You can’t trust things that he says and you certainly can entrust the integrity of any investigation that he is engaged in when there’s clear evidence that contradicts what he said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">Video Evidence Appears to Contradict SFPD Account of Mario Woods Shooting\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ij5TZuohoRg\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nRead more about KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">slow-motion video analysis\u003c/a> that appears to show Woods moving his arm only after the first shots are audible.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/mayor-lee-chief-suhr-for-study-of-new-nonlethal-weapons-including-tasers\" target=\"_blank\">said Monday\u003c/a> the department will deploy riot shields to officers, which could be used when confronting people carrying edged weapons. He also said firing range protocols have changed to emphasize alternatives to deadly force. The city's Police Commission \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/10/hundreds-at-meeting-call-for-suhrs-ouster-after-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">began the process\u003c/a> Wednesday of reviewing the department's use-of-force policies and has promised big changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys also displayed photographs of Woods' body and said he appeared to have been shot at least 20 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That use of force has very real consequences,\" attorney Adante Pointer said, adding that Woods was \"tattooed from his feet to his head with bullets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Woods does not appear to have a knife in his hand in any of the videos, and he's still seeking information about an alleged stabbing in which Woods was reportedly a suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest sign of community anger over the killing was a demonstration Friday involving hundreds of middle school and high school students who marched on City Hall to demand Chief Suhr's dismissal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest, followed by police officers and school district officials, briefly blocked parts of Mission Street and Market Street. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marchers chanted, \"No justice, no peace! No racist police!\" and \"Hands up, don't shoot!\" as they walked peacefully to Union Square and back up Geary. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=293049062 key=key-jHsrtp8croSzMakhRPQo mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated to include SFPD Sgt. Michael Andraychak's response and with information from a student-led demonstration and march to City Hall.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amanda Font of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Police say officers shot Woods with \"less-lethal\" beanbag rounds and pepper-sprayed him before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least four bystander videos of the shooting have been posted online. 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"content": "\u003cp>Speaker after speaker stepped up to the podium during Wednesday night's meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission with the same message: They want Police Chief Greg Suhr removed in the wake of last week's fatal officer-involved shooting of Bayview resident Mario Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission began the process of revising the Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=14790\" target=\"_blank\">use-of-force policies\u003c/a> in response to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Woods shooting\u003c/a> on Dec. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/s-f-police-chief-public-defender-clash-over-latest-fatal-cop-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Cellphone video\u003c/a> posted online shows eight or more police officers confronting Woods, 26, with guns drawn. Police say Woods, whom police describe as a suspect in a nearby stabbing, ignored repeated commands to drop an 8-inch kitchen knife he was carrying, even after being pepper-sprayed and hit by shotgun-fired \"less-lethal\" beanbag rounds. Videos show Woods attempting to walk away from officers, one of whom steps into his path. That officer and four others opened fire, police say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mario Woods’ body lays with 21 bullet holes,\" civil rights attorney DeWitt Lacy, who is representing Woods' family, told the commission. \"Twenty-one -- in his body -- because of a scandalously egregious use of force. The suggestion from the community is that Chief Suhr step down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr didn't speak until just before 10 p.m., after about four hours of public testimony repeating calls for his resignation or firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I, too, found the video upsetting,\" he said, and he referenced multiple ongoing investigations into the shooting. \"No conclusions have been reached.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said he delivered \"the facts as I know them\" at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/suhr-claims-video-shows-mario-woods-raised-knife-at-officer-community-in-disbelief/\" target=\"_blank\">public meeting in the Bayview\u003c/a> Friday when he said video appeared to show Woods raising his arm toward an officer before he was shot. KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">slow-motion analysis\u003c/a> of the same video found Woods raised his arm only after the first shot is audible. Neither Suhr nor the SFPD has responded to KQED's inquiry about the apparent contradiction.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"WuQBamUAQYA7sjm50zxRM2XUAkyp1ecW\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chief Suhr, you have lost the trust and the faith of the community,\" the Rev. Michael McBride told the commission. \"There’s some commandments that the San Francisco Police Department has to protect itself. We challenge these commandments that say that you shall be able to kill a black person whenever they don't comply at the moment you want them to comply. We reject the commandments that say because you're mentally ill and homeless, you're going to die on the street. Chief, it is time for you to resign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said a revision to the department's use-of-force policies should include a discussion of equipping at least some officers with Tasers. He suggested a pilot program in which specially trained tactical officers would carry the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officers should be able to call for them so that we never repeat anything even close to what happened last Wednesday,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr and the department's previous three chiefs have all tried to persuade the Police Commission to adopt Tasers as a further \"less-lethal\" means of controlling potentially dangerous subjects. Each time, concerns that the devices are dangerous and often ineffective have blocked their adoption. Those concerns were voiced again Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Daniel Buford read several headlines to the commission describing torment of suspects at the hands of police armed with Tasers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Taser, that's not a panacea,\" he said. \"There's ample evidence that cops torture with a Taser, kill with a Taser, and if that doesn't work, they'll shoot him with a real gun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This latest push for Tasers is just one prong of what could mark sweeping changes to policing in San Francisco and beyond in the wake of Woods' death. The department is joining a national effort to \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">re-engineer training on police use of force\u003c/a>\" with the Washington, D.C.-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Executive Research Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a top priority for all of law enforcement in the country, to get this change in police culture to go toward de-escalation and other alternatives to lethal force so that really the only time that a firearm would come into play would be when we're dealing with a person with a firearm,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Suzy Loftus said she also requested PERF's help in reviewing the department's use-of-force policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a large paradigm shift that is happening in this country around policing,\" she said. She added that viewing video of Woods' shooting had \"rattled the trust that, in particular, people in the African-American community have in this Police Department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Commissioner Joe Marshall seemed to struggle to find words for what he was feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard -- I'm hurt,\" he said, adding that watching the video was painful for him. \"It was really, really bad. ... That's the last thing I wanted to see, and the thing that's so hard, we've worked so hard to close the gap, and it was all undone just like that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Speaker after speaker stepped up to the podium during Wednesday night's meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission with the same message: They want Police Chief Greg Suhr removed in the wake of last week's fatal officer-involved shooting of Bayview resident Mario Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission began the process of revising the Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=14790\" target=\"_blank\">use-of-force policies\u003c/a> in response to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Woods shooting\u003c/a> on Dec. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/s-f-police-chief-public-defender-clash-over-latest-fatal-cop-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Cellphone video\u003c/a> posted online shows eight or more police officers confronting Woods, 26, with guns drawn. Police say Woods, whom police describe as a suspect in a nearby stabbing, ignored repeated commands to drop an 8-inch kitchen knife he was carrying, even after being pepper-sprayed and hit by shotgun-fired \"less-lethal\" beanbag rounds. Videos show Woods attempting to walk away from officers, one of whom steps into his path. That officer and four others opened fire, police say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mario Woods’ body lays with 21 bullet holes,\" civil rights attorney DeWitt Lacy, who is representing Woods' family, told the commission. \"Twenty-one -- in his body -- because of a scandalously egregious use of force. The suggestion from the community is that Chief Suhr step down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr didn't speak until just before 10 p.m., after about four hours of public testimony repeating calls for his resignation or firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I, too, found the video upsetting,\" he said, and he referenced multiple ongoing investigations into the shooting. \"No conclusions have been reached.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said he delivered \"the facts as I know them\" at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/suhr-claims-video-shows-mario-woods-raised-knife-at-officer-community-in-disbelief/\" target=\"_blank\">public meeting in the Bayview\u003c/a> Friday when he said video appeared to show Woods raising his arm toward an officer before he was shot. KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">slow-motion analysis\u003c/a> of the same video found Woods raised his arm only after the first shot is audible. Neither Suhr nor the SFPD has responded to KQED's inquiry about the apparent contradiction.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chief Suhr, you have lost the trust and the faith of the community,\" the Rev. Michael McBride told the commission. \"There’s some commandments that the San Francisco Police Department has to protect itself. We challenge these commandments that say that you shall be able to kill a black person whenever they don't comply at the moment you want them to comply. We reject the commandments that say because you're mentally ill and homeless, you're going to die on the street. Chief, it is time for you to resign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said a revision to the department's use-of-force policies should include a discussion of equipping at least some officers with Tasers. He suggested a pilot program in which specially trained tactical officers would carry the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officers should be able to call for them so that we never repeat anything even close to what happened last Wednesday,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr and the department's previous three chiefs have all tried to persuade the Police Commission to adopt Tasers as a further \"less-lethal\" means of controlling potentially dangerous subjects. Each time, concerns that the devices are dangerous and often ineffective have blocked their adoption. Those concerns were voiced again Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Daniel Buford read several headlines to the commission describing torment of suspects at the hands of police armed with Tasers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Taser, that's not a panacea,\" he said. \"There's ample evidence that cops torture with a Taser, kill with a Taser, and if that doesn't work, they'll shoot him with a real gun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This latest push for Tasers is just one prong of what could mark sweeping changes to policing in San Francisco and beyond in the wake of Woods' death. The department is joining a national effort to \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">re-engineer training on police use of force\u003c/a>\" with the Washington, D.C.-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Executive Research Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a top priority for all of law enforcement in the country, to get this change in police culture to go toward de-escalation and other alternatives to lethal force so that really the only time that a firearm would come into play would be when we're dealing with a person with a firearm,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Suzy Loftus said she also requested PERF's help in reviewing the department's use-of-force policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a large paradigm shift that is happening in this country around policing,\" she said. She added that viewing video of Woods' shooting had \"rattled the trust that, in particular, people in the African-American community have in this Police Department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Commissioner Joe Marshall seemed to struggle to find words for what he was feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard -- I'm hurt,\" he said, adding that watching the video was painful for him. \"It was really, really bad. ... That's the last thing I wanted to see, and the thing that's so hard, we've worked so hard to close the gap, and it was all undone just like that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday, Dec. 9:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Police Officers Association is chiding Mayor Ed Lee for comments he made earlier this week about the fatal shooting of Mario Woods in the city's Bayview neighborhood last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's comments came at a Monday conference to announce the Police Department will explore the use of Tasers, crowd-control shields and other techniques in the wake of Woods' shooting, an incident \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">captured on cellphone video\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle's Phil Matier and Andy Ross \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Mayor-Ed-Lee-s-statement-on-police-shooting-6684728.php\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> that POA President Martin Halloran is also unhappy about a mayoral directive to Police Chief Greg Suhr “to take specific, immediate action to ensure (officers) have more options to resolve situations with the minimum use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From M&R:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It should be ‘reasonable’ force,” Halloran said. “Minimal force means you have to work your way step by step up the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “When you respond to a call and find someone with a gun in their waistband, you should not have to start out with a verbal command, then go up to pepper spray or baton or some other tactic before you draw your gun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... When Lee asked Halloran to show up along with the police chief for the City Hall news conference, the union president declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, the mayor brought the actions of our officers into question,” Halloran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the officers who opened fire on Woods last Wednesday “followed every departmental protocol, and shot only after after having exhausted every other means of nonlethal use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his statement, the mayor said that he had seen the cell phone video of the five officers firing at least 15 rounds at Woods and that “I found it very upsetting. ... It raised a number of questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee wasn’t alone in his concerns. Police Commissioner Joe Marshall, who was on hand with the mayor, later told reporters, “The fact that one officer fired, then all the other officers fired, is what has the community up in arms. To me, it felt like an execution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran countered, “You can’t judge a situation on the basis of an eight-second video.” He noted that Woods, who had allegedly stabbed a man in the shoulder, had been pepper-sprayed and shot with nonlethal beanbags, and still wasn’t surrendering.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Halloran also issued \u003ca href=\"http://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20151208/75/5c/5c/82/df77ca64a657b03c853e3506/Press_Release_120815.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a statement\u003c/a> on Tuesday responding to critics of officers' actions in the Woods incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Monday, Dec. 7:\u003c/strong> Amid community outrage over the videotaped police shooting of a Bayview man last week, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said the city is \"moving fast\" to give the Police Department more options to de-escalate confrontations with suspects \"with a minimum use of force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr announced at a Monday press conference at City Hall that the Police Commission would open its review at Wednesday's meeting. At the top of the commission's agenda will be considering whether officers should carry Tasers -- a step long opposed by community activists who have argued the devices are dangerous and don't do much to prevent officers' use of firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">Video Evidence Appears to Contradict SFPD Account of Mario Woods Shooting\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10786209\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-400x213.jpg\" alt=\"woods-feature-image\" width=\"400\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-400x213.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-800x425.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-1440x766.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-1920x1021.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-1180x628.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-960x511.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-280x150.jpg 280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1.jpg 1948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>Watch \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">slow-motion video analysis\u003c/a> that appears to show Woods only moving his arm after the first shots are audible.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The mayor said other equipment and tactics should also be considered, including shields that could protect officers in encounters with suspects who have edged weapons, such as knives. The department currently has 60 shields and is beginning to deploy them to officers in the field, officials at Monday's press conference said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, we’ll open it up,\" Police Commission member Joe Marshall said of the department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=14790\" target=\"_blank\">use of force policy\u003c/a>. \"We’ll talk about use of force. We’ll begin the review of all our general orders, all our policies, our procedures, our trainings, all of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshall said he was \"flabbergasted\" and \"appalled\" when he first saw video of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/s-f-police-chief-public-defender-clash-over-latest-fatal-cop-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">last week's police shooting\u003c/a>, recorded by several bystanders, that killed Mario Woods, 26, a man police have described as a suspect in a stabbing on Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five officers fired at Woods as he moved toward an officer who stepped into his path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did we have to handle it that way?\" Marshall asked. \"I’ve talked to several people, including officers, that say, ‘not necessarily.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said the video is very upsetting and raises a number of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that, on the one hand, city officials \"need to reassure the people of San Francisco that lethal force is always the last option.\" On the other, he added, police officers \"deserve more alternates to lethal force in order to best de-escalate conflicts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said Suhr \"is already ... instituting significant changes to instruction for when and how often officers use their firearms and increasing mandatory recurring training on de-escalating skills. Our Police Department will have at least as much training in de-escalation as we do on use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's last four police chiefs, including Suhr, have urged the Police Commission to approve the use of Tasers. Suhr dropped his most recent Taser request, in 2013, after \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/San-Francisco-police-don-t-need-Tasers-4304521.php\" target=\"_blank\">encountering skepticism\u003c/a> about the devices' safety and effectiveness from police-accountability activists and members of the Police Commission.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"jQt722pfIQyee5GTy5wCIefBZUk9IFRk\"]\u003cbr>\nMonday, Suhr made reference to \u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/12035552/Leytonstone-London-tube-underground-machete-attack-terrorism.html\">a weekend incident in London\u003c/a> in which police officers used Tasers to stop a man who stabbed two people on a subway platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly as you saw on Saturday ... the London Police Department were able to stop that threat with the use of a Taser,\" Suhr said. \"If that exact same incident happened here in San Francisco, we would have nothing but lethal force. So we would like to have Tasers. That will be part of the discussion that will be taken up when we open our use of force policy. ... I will be asking for Tasers, yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has said officers opened fire after Woods ignored repeated warnings to put down an 8-inch kitchen knife he was holding. Suhr added that attempts to subdue Woods with less-lethal beanbag rounds and pepper spray failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers are allowed to fire in defense of themselves or others in danger of serious injury or death,” Suhr said after the shooting. He told a Bayview community meeting on Friday that the most viewed video of the incident, posted to Instagram, showed Woods extending his arm toward one of the eight or more officers who had confronted him -- many with guns drawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr's argument drew jeering from the Bayview audience, along with shouted demands that he step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">KQED analysis\u003c/a> of the video shows that the police gunfire actually began a fraction of a second before Woods extended his arm and that his movement may have been a response to being hit by a bullet. The Police Department has said five officers fired on Woods. Slowed-down audio of the encounter suggests at least 19 shots were fired in a 3.5-second span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr added at Monday's appearance with the mayor that he asked for SFPD to participate in \u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">research\u003c/a> on police use of force policies and training underway at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Executive Research Forum\u003c/a>, a Washington, D.C.-based police practices research organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee and Suhr met with reporters at City Hall a few hours before a meeting of the San Francisco NAACP, which was called to discuss responses to the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an acknowledgment of the public anger over the Woods shooting, Lee said Monday: “This country has seen far to many incidences where conflicts between police and young men of color result in the death of a young person. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday, Dec. 9:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Police Officers Association is chiding Mayor Ed Lee for comments he made earlier this week about the fatal shooting of Mario Woods in the city's Bayview neighborhood last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's comments came at a Monday conference to announce the Police Department will explore the use of Tasers, crowd-control shields and other techniques in the wake of Woods' shooting, an incident \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">captured on cellphone video\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle's Phil Matier and Andy Ross \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Mayor-Ed-Lee-s-statement-on-police-shooting-6684728.php\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> that POA President Martin Halloran is also unhappy about a mayoral directive to Police Chief Greg Suhr “to take specific, immediate action to ensure (officers) have more options to resolve situations with the minimum use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From M&R:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It should be ‘reasonable’ force,” Halloran said. “Minimal force means you have to work your way step by step up the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “When you respond to a call and find someone with a gun in their waistband, you should not have to start out with a verbal command, then go up to pepper spray or baton or some other tactic before you draw your gun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... When Lee asked Halloran to show up along with the police chief for the City Hall news conference, the union president declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, the mayor brought the actions of our officers into question,” Halloran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the officers who opened fire on Woods last Wednesday “followed every departmental protocol, and shot only after after having exhausted every other means of nonlethal use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his statement, the mayor said that he had seen the cell phone video of the five officers firing at least 15 rounds at Woods and that “I found it very upsetting. ... It raised a number of questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee wasn’t alone in his concerns. Police Commissioner Joe Marshall, who was on hand with the mayor, later told reporters, “The fact that one officer fired, then all the other officers fired, is what has the community up in arms. To me, it felt like an execution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran countered, “You can’t judge a situation on the basis of an eight-second video.” He noted that Woods, who had allegedly stabbed a man in the shoulder, had been pepper-sprayed and shot with nonlethal beanbags, and still wasn’t surrendering.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Halloran also issued \u003ca href=\"http://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20151208/75/5c/5c/82/df77ca64a657b03c853e3506/Press_Release_120815.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a statement\u003c/a> on Tuesday responding to critics of officers' actions in the Woods incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Monday, Dec. 7:\u003c/strong> Amid community outrage over the videotaped police shooting of a Bayview man last week, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said the city is \"moving fast\" to give the Police Department more options to de-escalate confrontations with suspects \"with a minimum use of force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr announced at a Monday press conference at City Hall that the Police Commission would open its review at Wednesday's meeting. At the top of the commission's agenda will be considering whether officers should carry Tasers -- a step long opposed by community activists who have argued the devices are dangerous and don't do much to prevent officers' use of firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">Video Evidence Appears to Contradict SFPD Account of Mario Woods Shooting\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10786209\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-400x213.jpg\" alt=\"woods-feature-image\" width=\"400\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-400x213.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-800x425.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-1440x766.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-1920x1021.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-1180x628.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-960x511.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1-280x150.jpg 280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/woods-feature-image1.jpg 1948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>Watch \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">slow-motion video analysis\u003c/a> that appears to show Woods only moving his arm after the first shots are audible.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The mayor said other equipment and tactics should also be considered, including shields that could protect officers in encounters with suspects who have edged weapons, such as knives. The department currently has 60 shields and is beginning to deploy them to officers in the field, officials at Monday's press conference said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, we’ll open it up,\" Police Commission member Joe Marshall said of the department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=14790\" target=\"_blank\">use of force policy\u003c/a>. \"We’ll talk about use of force. We’ll begin the review of all our general orders, all our policies, our procedures, our trainings, all of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshall said he was \"flabbergasted\" and \"appalled\" when he first saw video of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/02/s-f-police-chief-public-defender-clash-over-latest-fatal-cop-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">last week's police shooting\u003c/a>, recorded by several bystanders, that killed Mario Woods, 26, a man police have described as a suspect in a stabbing on Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five officers fired at Woods as he moved toward an officer who stepped into his path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did we have to handle it that way?\" Marshall asked. \"I’ve talked to several people, including officers, that say, ‘not necessarily.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said the video is very upsetting and raises a number of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that, on the one hand, city officials \"need to reassure the people of San Francisco that lethal force is always the last option.\" On the other, he added, police officers \"deserve more alternates to lethal force in order to best de-escalate conflicts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said Suhr \"is already ... instituting significant changes to instruction for when and how often officers use their firearms and increasing mandatory recurring training on de-escalating skills. Our Police Department will have at least as much training in de-escalation as we do on use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's last four police chiefs, including Suhr, have urged the Police Commission to approve the use of Tasers. Suhr dropped his most recent Taser request, in 2013, after \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/San-Francisco-police-don-t-need-Tasers-4304521.php\" target=\"_blank\">encountering skepticism\u003c/a> about the devices' safety and effectiveness from police-accountability activists and members of the Police Commission.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nMonday, Suhr made reference to \u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/12035552/Leytonstone-London-tube-underground-machete-attack-terrorism.html\">a weekend incident in London\u003c/a> in which police officers used Tasers to stop a man who stabbed two people on a subway platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly as you saw on Saturday ... the London Police Department were able to stop that threat with the use of a Taser,\" Suhr said. \"If that exact same incident happened here in San Francisco, we would have nothing but lethal force. So we would like to have Tasers. That will be part of the discussion that will be taken up when we open our use of force policy. ... I will be asking for Tasers, yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has said officers opened fire after Woods ignored repeated warnings to put down an 8-inch kitchen knife he was holding. Suhr added that attempts to subdue Woods with less-lethal beanbag rounds and pepper spray failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers are allowed to fire in defense of themselves or others in danger of serious injury or death,” Suhr said after the shooting. He told a Bayview community meeting on Friday that the most viewed video of the incident, posted to Instagram, showed Woods extending his arm toward one of the eight or more officers who had confronted him -- many with guns drawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr's argument drew jeering from the Bayview audience, along with shouted demands that he step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">KQED analysis\u003c/a> of the video shows that the police gunfire actually began a fraction of a second before Woods extended his arm and that his movement may have been a response to being hit by a bullet. The Police Department has said five officers fired on Woods. Slowed-down audio of the encounter suggests at least 19 shots were fired in a 3.5-second span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr added at Monday's appearance with the mayor that he asked for SFPD to participate in \u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">research\u003c/a> on police use of force policies and training underway at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Executive Research Forum\u003c/a>, a Washington, D.C.-based police practices research organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee and Suhr met with reporters at City Hall a few hours before a meeting of the San Francisco NAACP, which was called to discuss responses to the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an acknowledgment of the public anger over the Woods shooting, Lee said Monday: “This country has seen far to many incidences where conflicts between police and young men of color result in the death of a young person. 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