Police Brutality in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO HALL OF SHAME...
3 Cases of incredible police brutality
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June 13, 2001: Idriss Stelley, 23 yr Franco-African-American student, was shot more than 20 times by 9 police officers. His crime: he lit up a cigarette while watching a movie at the Sony Metreon Theater in San Francisco. 8 months later, the police won't release the names or statements of the 5 witnesses, and Idriss personal belongings have not been returned to the grieving family.

January 21, 2002: 4 African-American children, 12 to 14 yr old, were brutally assaulted by SFPD in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, held a gun point, under the terrified eyes of their parents. The girls were fondled, one boy suffered a severe concussion and a dislocated jaw. Their crime: listening to music in a car on Martin Luther King's Day, with their parents permission. When a parent inquired: "Why are you doing this?" he was told: "As long as YOU PEOPLE are here, we will continue doing this"...

February 9, 2002: Laurie McElroy, a disabled woman of color, reporter for the SF Bayview Reporter, left her evening job and went to pick up her 9 yr child at the babysitter. A few blocks from home, she was stopped by 3 police officers. One told her: "What kind of a mother are you to walk at this time of night with your child?". She was handcuffed and hit with clubs in her stomach and legs. By the second time she asked what were the charges, they duct taped her mouth and took her to jail. In the police car, she was told: "And what kind of a mother are you to make us beat you like this in front of your child?"...Her crime: Walking home from her evening job with her child, who is still held in protective custody, under the pretext that her disability prevents her to take proper care of him.

The San Francisco Police Department does not seem to be aware that the slave hunt is over, or maybe they do not remember the Civil Right Movement... (to their defense, it is true that it happened more than 40 years ago...)

We urge all world sections of Amnesty International to make a stand for the human rights and dignity of our San Francisco African American Brothers & Sisters ! Those whose salaries are paid by our tax dollars to "Serve & Protect" have gone mad, and enjoy total impunity !

Please, WE NEED YOUR HELP! PEACE * COURAGE * SOLIDARITY

Mesha Monge-Irizarry
Mother of Idriss.
(650) 201-6203
iolmisha [at] cs.com

PLEASE E-MAIL YOUR COMMENTS TO
* Mayor Willie Brown
* Police Chief Lau

By logging on: http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/mainpages/feedback.htm

Or please call as many of these numbers as you can:

1st priority calls:

CHIEF LAU: (415) 553-1551
POLICE COMMISSION: (415) 553-1667
SYDNEY CHAN, PRESIDENT OF P.C.: (415) 397-1985 (Private business office)
2nd priority calls:

VICTOR MAKRAS: (415) 992-1990 (Private business office)
CONNIE PERRY: (425) 538-4146 (Private business office)
WAYNE FRIDAY: (415) 431-1792 (Home)
ANGELO QUARANTA: (415) 885-1557 (Home)

For more information, call Bay Area PoliceWatch at 415-951-4844X224

For background, please visit:
http://www.idrissonelove.com
French language

http://www.justice4idriss.org
English language

http://idriss.swer.biz/
English & French

http://www.sfbayview.com
English

http://www.granma.cu/espanol/julio5/32violencia-e.html
Espanol

http://www.ellabakercenter.org/
English, Bay Area PoliceWatch