This Weds: Important Police Brutality Police Commission Meeting in SF

This Wednesday, there will be an important hearing for San Francisco, the
Police Commission will holding a second hearing to decide whether or not
to bring charges against cops who abused Hunters Point youth in 2002 on
Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

DEMAND JUSTICE FOR HUNTERS POINT YOUTH


POLICE COMMISSION MEETING
5:30 PM APRIL 8, 2004
850 BRYANT STREET 5TH FLOOR RM 551
SAN FRANCICO, CA

For information call
(415)951-4844 x.224




The Police Officers Association is trying to block the Police Commission
from taking action against these cops who are GUILTY OF ABUSING OUR YOUTH.
They have said that time has run out on this case. We say no way!!! We
must defend the rights of our children. Support these children and their
families by attending the Police Commission meeting and by calling the
commissioners at (415) 553-1667, tell them not to let the Police Officers
Association lead them away from justice.



DETAILS OF THE INCIDENT

On 1/21/2002 12:00 am in BayView/Hunters Point, SFPD officers, responding
to an anonymous call regarding men with red ski masks sitting in a car,
approached a car of children, ages 12 and 13, with their guns drawn. These
children were doing nothing but listening to music. The officers grabbed
and pulled each of the children out of the car and threw them on the
ground. One of the 13 year old girls was searched excessively and
inappropriately by a male officer. The officer touched her breasts and
genital area. As community members started to gather, yelling out to the
police to stop abusing children, they were told ³As long as you people
are here we will do this.² As the children stood outside of the car
handcuffed one of the children was pushed down on the ground , as he lay
on the ground bleeding from his head an officer placed his knee in the
middle of his back pushing his face and body into the ground in excess of
15 minutes. The injured child was taken down to the police department,
with his head still bleeding. After this altercation with SFPD the youth
were left with bruises, lacerations, concussion, and severe emotional
distress.