20 SFPD Cops Suspended for Racist Video!!! Press Conference in BVHP Tomorrow 9:30am!!!***

that fucker bruce is implicated (highest ranking officer involved). beautiful. he is the SFPD red squad guy. just beautiful.

Get over it, the video was funny. It was no different than anything you see by today's top comedians.
Once again the City is going to have to pay out millions to the Officers like Mark Andaya and soon Tony Nelson and these Officers for wrongful discipline. Luckily for the Officers, this City and Department are run by idiots.

comedians dont shoot and imprison people

I never saw a video do that either.....

This became a big story. It is listed as one of the four top stories at this Seattle TV station's webpage, which says it got on Good Morning America. Rick Bruce ordered me and 800 others arrested in 2003 for marching down the sidewalk, although who knows if an even higher level told him to do that. Reno 911 is funny, except I think people are laughing *at* the police officers instead of with them
http://www.kirotv.com/news/5490599/detail.html

Look how the Seattle police spend their time; undercover seat belt sting - although I actually support them doing traffic work. When is the last time you saw someone get a ticket for speeding or bad driving in San Francisco: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002667004_panhandle06m.html

Police: Officer Zaps Partner After Soda Dispute

POSTED: 4:19 am PST December 8, 2005

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- Authorities said a police officer in Michigan used a Taser stun gun on his partner during an argument about stopping for a soft drink.

The suspect was fired after the Nov. 3 incident and is charged with assault.

Ronald Dupuis, 32, could get up to 93 days in jail if convicted.

Authorities said Dupuis asked partner Prema Graham to stop at a store for a soft drink, but she refused and instead kept driving back to headquarters.

Authorities said the partners struggled over the steering wheel, and Dupuis hit Graham's leg with his department-issued Taser gun. She wasn't seriously hurt.

Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press.

You know those videos are hella funny. I speak out against the SFPD all the time and I cannot stand any of them especially Chief Fong or Hong whateever it is, and I have to say the videos are funny. It shows a more humorous side. But yeah who made the films and at what cost? They probably didn't cost much to make but it takes times to get footage.
If it was done on their off duty hours then hey more power to them.
Sure is cool to when the SFPD makes videos that can get you laughing.
Watch out Comedy Channel. Its Frisco 911.

the Chronicle article quotes Bruce or someone else as saying that this is the FOURTH comedy video that has been produced in recent years

what did they know, and when did they know it?


--Richard

calls for tongue lashing

Fire 'em all. The vids aren't even funny, just juvenille and stupid.

These horrifying videos were made by the San Francisco police in uniform on the taxpayer's time and dime. This means the police do not have enough work to do, and this is a good opportunity to cut the police department to zero as they are all completely worthless. We do not need $80,000 a year and up with benefits cops directing traffic. Can you imagine taking time from your job, on your employer's time and dime, and making videos of any kind? You would be told you are fired immediately and your check would be mailed to you and you must leave the premises immediately.

And, these videos were to be shown at an Xmas party. It is long overdue that the City ban all Xmas parties on city property. These parties generally everywhere are opportunities for despicable behavior, from drunkenness and drug use to lewd and lascivious behavior. Here is some of the description of this viciously racist, sexist, homophobic trash made in uniform, on our time and dime:
From: http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/12/09/news/20051209_ne02_sfpd.txt
Article entitled "SFPD videotape shows much more
Skits released by city just part of 28-minute movie"

"The video skits at the center of a San Francisco Police Department scandal are only a small part of a much longer and more disturbing production that features images of an African-American police officer in a cage with a leash around his neck, officers playing video games while waving overtime
cards and officers defecating in a toilet, according to the video’s creator and a city official who has watched the entire video."

"The videos show officers running over a homeless black woman, the officers ogling another woman during a traffic stop and Bayview Capt. Rick Bruce suggestively licking his lips at a transgender woman."

From: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/09/SFCOPS.TMP
"San Francisco police investigating what top city officials portray as racist and sexist videos produced by Bayview District officers said Thursday that new clips had come to light -- including an image of a black officer eating from a dog bowl and one of an Asian officer having difficulty riding a bicycle. "

The scenes made public Wednesday had all been loaded onto Cohen's personal Web site within the past month. Department officials said the site had gotten 250 hits before Cohen took it down.

"The scenes included one in which a traffic officer, oblivious to a homeless woman in the street as he grumbles about his job, runs over her. She rises, screams vulgarities about white police officers and makes an obscene gesture. "

"Another clip depicts an officer pulling over a female motorist and ogling her as he describes himself in a voiceover as the most desirable officer on the force. A third makes light of what Cohen said was a nervous habit of former Bayview station Capt. Rick Bruce by showing female officers, a transgender person and the homeless woman from the earlier skit sticking out their tongues suggestively as they intone, "Oh, captain." " Bruce appears in the video sticking his tongue out. "

He appears in uniform, as do many other cops. That means they were on the taxpayers's time and dime.

As this writer puts on the juror questionnaire, no decent person becomes a cop. We have a chief of police, Heather Fong, willfully ignoring the forced prostitution and rape of the dancers at the Mitchell Brothers theater; we have a police department with so much time on its hands that it has nothing better to do than make despicable videos and then to this day defend this vicious trash as humorous.

These thugs start at $80,000 a year plus benefits, and the officers can make around $150,000 a year plus benefits. When they retire, they can receive a pension for life that is annually 90% of their pay.

A cop by definition is the armed thug of the capitalist class whose primary job is to terrorize the workingclass. Since we do not need that, it is time to shut down the entire San Francisco Police Department and transfer the millions of dollars spent on these thugs to all the social services which desperately need and deserve funds.

yes, I think it would be more satisfying if the Office of Citizen's Complaints plus the mayor's office would have sanctions for actual wrongs done by officers, rather than just artistic productions that imply that they would be likely to be racist and corrupt.
For instance, (and not even touching upon a long list of incidents involving individual citizens) several of us filed OCC complaints for this completely illegal mass arrest called by Richard Bruce (depicted in photo above). The OCC didn't sustain them for the reason that the lieutenant at the scene had left the department by then. Who knows what happened to the lawsuit. Shouldn't the real things done be more important rather than implying that they are the sort of police to do bad things.

photos of Bruce
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/03/1587558_comment.php#1587935
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/03/1588060_comment.php?theme=default

New book chronicles native deaths in Saskatoon
BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN
heidi [at] northernlife.ca

It all started out as an urban legend.

Young natives living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan often told stories about “starlight tours” - police picking up people on minor charges, driving them out of town and leaving them to walk home by themselves.

Little did they know that those stories were true.

One frigid November night in 1990, 17-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared only blocks from his home.

Three days later, his frozen body was found in the outskirts of Saskatoon - eight kilometres from where he was last seen.

He was wearing only a light leather jacket, jeans and one shoe, and he had abrasions around his wrists and scrapes on his face.

The police report concluded Stonechild was drunk and out walking, and died by mistake, although a friend swore he’d last seen the teen in the back of a police cruiser.

Former Garson boy Rob Renaud, who now works as the regional director for CBC Radio in Ottawa, is the co-author of an in-depth book about the teen’s death along with his colleague, Susanne Reber.

Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild was published last month by Random House Canada.

Stonechild’s case was brought back into the news in February 2000 after four more men were found frozen to death in the outskirts of Saskatoon, says Renaud.

“One of them, a 30-year-old man named Lawrence Wegner, was found five kilometres south of town, near the Queen Elizabeth Power Station. He was wearing only a t-shirt, and he had no shoes, and his socks were clean, and it’s five km from town,” he says.

But one man happened to survive his starlight tour. Darrell Night, who stands six-foot-six and weighs 260 pounds, was dropped off by police not far from where Wegner’s body was found.

Night believes he lived because his size made him more hardy, he knew the area and he was able to find a night watchman on duty at the power station.

“This is at 5:30 in the morning, and he goes to the door and pounds on it for 15 or 20 minutes. He’s totally frozen. There just happens to be a night watchman at the front, and he let Darrell in the power station,” says Renaud.

“If he hadn’t let Darrell in, there was every chance he would have frozen to death.”

The RCMP launched an investigation into the Saskatoon Police Force, which ultimately led to a public inquiry in 2003.

The two officers who were last seen with Stonechild were fired, although no criminal charges have ever been laid.

There are echoes of the Stonechild story in the way that police deal with other disenfranchised people across the country, says Renaud.

In Vancouver, police took three men to Stanley Park and beat them up, and in Toronto, there was a case of a homeless man who was brought to
Cherry Beach and assaulted.

Renaud himself remembers the local troublemaker being dropped off by police in Capreol as a teen growing up in Garson in the 1960s.

The author says he’s amazed at how the people of Saskatoon co-operated with his research for the book. Stonechild’s mother, Stella, was especially helpful.

“We actually dedicate the book to the families, because without them, we really couldn’t have written it. By talking to them, I learned more about courage and generosity and the will to persevere to find justice than in any time in the past,” he says.

“Stella Stonechild has always sought justice for her son. She’s a very Christian woman, and that’s one of the things that’s helped her to get through this. One of her great quotes at the end of the public inquiry was about (the police officers who abandoned her son). She said ‘Neither of them will have lawyers where they’re going (after they die)’.”

For more information about the book, go to http://www.randomhouse.ca.