[News] 5:30 Wed- Police hearing on Hunters Point Youth & cops

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DEMAND JUSTICE FOR HUNTERS POINT YOUTH

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

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) 553-1167 and telling them on Wednesday to hold SFPD 
accountable, don’t let the Police Officers Association lead them away from 
justice.


5:30 PM – POLCIE COMMISSION MEETING
850 BRYANT  STREET  5TH FLOOR  RM 551
SAN FRANCICO, CA

For more information call (415)951-4844 x. 242

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  “As long as you people are 
here we will do this.”  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.




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