Hunters Point residents terrorized by SFPD

* 2 months before the Police Reform Charter Amendment on the November Ballot...
* Despite the senseless SFPD brutalization of African American children in Hunters Point, on MLK day 17 months ago, only now brought up to court,
* Despite the horrendous SFPD brutalization of the Thurgood Marshall students, and the arrest of a teacher for videotaping the incident,
* Enough was enough decades, centuries ago! We will no longer stand in isolation and demoralization, and request your immediate attention to bring forth immediate solutions!

The Bayview Hunters Point community is promptly organizing to gather all witness testimonies, rally widespread action to support and defend our revoltingly, repeatedly criminalized, brutalized and oppressed community. Parents and relatives have courageously stepped up to the plate since last evening, wanting to make sure that their sons and daughters get the support, and safety they so desperately need. When will SFPD fulfill its mission to "Serve and Protect"? When will we able to stop having to protect ourselves, again, and again, from the "protectors" whose salaries are paid by our tax money?

A number of African American police officers were sent to Hunters Point the following day, attempting to do damage control and pacify our community, to no avail. Enough cover-ups, divide and conquer techniques, enough lethal attacks from SFPD on Bayview Hunters Point!

The car of the assaulting officers was low riding up on the hill all afternoon Tuesday, license plate 3XKK304. When they pulled up in front of SF Bayview Newspaper, I took pictures from the newspaper's window; the officers, conversing with 3 colleagues on bikes, smiled and waived at us, as if it was some kind of a joke...

SAVE THE DATE: FRIDAY AUG 29 Press Conference on the unthinkable incident, to be held by the families, community and youth activists, SF Bayview and Idriss Stelley Foundation, at the Green House, 4919 3rd Street between Palou and Quesada, SF.

Front-page article in the SF Bay View Newspaper and on http://www.sfbayview.com:

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Hunters Point residents terrorized by SFPD
by JR

Hunters Point - On Monday, Aug. 25, two white San Francisco police officers drove up Middlepoint and West Point Road in the neighborhood of Hunters Point between 6 and 7 p.m. Lee Collins, a 23-year-old resident of the area, who many may know as Baby Finsta and who was featured in Kevin Epps' award winning independent film "Straight Outta Hunter's Point," was called out by the officers.

As they approached him, he put his hands up, and the officers immediately commenced hitting him with their billy clubs, punching and kicking him until he was unconscious. At the same time, they were uttering remarks to his relatives like "Back up, bitch."

The officers who made the initial stop called in for their backup to detain everybody in white t-shirts in the area. When backup arrived, approximately 30 officers showed up, pointing guns at children who were as young as 8 years old, as well as other residents who were watching this act of police terrorism.

Fourteen-year-old Marcus Law, an honor roll student who just got a full college scholarship and who has never been in trouble with the law, was approached and immediately hit with a police billy club, causing him to go to the hospital. At least two other adults were brutalized in the incident, and a number of children and other spectators were psychologically traumatized by what they saw.

After the 30-minute terror session was administered to Lee Collins in the Hunters Point neighborhood that he is a resident of, he was taken to the Williams and Newhall police station, then sneaked out of the back in an ambulance.

"I looked in the ambulance's back side window and saw Lee Collins, with his head leaned back unconscious, with no medical personnel or attention. That's when a police car came from behind and intentionally tried to run me down for looking in the back of the ambulance," said Hectic, the cousin of Lee Collins.

After the police attacked Hectic, he ran to the police station, telling the crowd of approximately 15 concerned relatives, friends and residents that Lee was taken to the hospital. When the crew of approximately 15 showed up at the hospital, officers who were already present started harassing and verbally abusing people.

On the night of the incident, the San Francisco Police Department, the occupying gang that controls the hood, refused to allow the family to have any contact with Lee Collins at the police station or at the hospital. There will never be peace until we get justice! For more information, call the Idriss Stelley Foundation and come to the press conference at the Green House, 4919 Third St., at Palou, in Hunters Point, on Friday at 11 a.m.