Wed: Demand Justice for Hunters Point Youth

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.