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San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi showed two surveillance videos yesterday that demonstrates, he said, SFPD officers committed perjury when they falsified police reports in connection with two warrantless narcotics arrests at the Henry Hotel. Photos by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

March 3, 2011<\/p>\n

Surveillance videos released by the San Francisco Public Defender’s office has triggered multiple investigations into allegations of police misconduct and perjury.<\/p>\n

The videos contradict police report testimony signed under penalty of perjury and reveal Police Department narcotics officers falsified reports to justify searching two residences without warrants or consent as required by law, officials with the Public Defender\u2019s office announced yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cA free society cannot abide a culture of lawlessness by police,\u201d Public Defender Chief Attorney Matt Gonzalez said in a statement. \u201cThose officers who lie under oath to magistrates should be prosecuted for their misconduct. They are no better than the criminals they purport to be in pursuit of.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video footage stems from two separate drug arrests at the single residency Henry Hotel on December 23, 2010 and January 5, 2011. After reviewing the video on Monday from the January 5th arrest, Superior Court Judge Anne Bouliane dismissed the case prompting the district attorney\u2019s office to dismiss the December 23 case before going to trial.<\/p>\n

In the January 5th footage<\/a>, an officer identified as Office Yick, who wrote the police report, appears to intentionally block a video surveillance camera from capturing evidence of the arrest.<\/p>\n

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A man identified by the public defender’s office as SFPD Officer Yick approaches a surveillance camera at the Henry Hotel on January 5.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A man identified by the public defender’s office as SFPD Officer Yick\u00a0 raises his hand to block a surveillance camera from recording an arrest at the Henry Hotel on January 5.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the December 23rd footage<\/a>, Officer Razzaq writes the narcotics officers obtained written consent before they searched the residence when, according to Deputy Public Defender Anne Irwin, written consent to search had not been obtained until eighteen minutes later when two uniformed officers arrived on scene to provide the narcotics officers with the consent to search form.<\/p>\n

In both arrests, officers acted on information provided by an informant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe violations are really occurring on two levels,\u201d said Public Defender Managing Attorney Bob Dunlap. \u201cThere\u2019s the constitutional violation, which is blatant. It\u2019s a warrantless, unexcused, unannounced entry into a person\u2019s home, and then there\u2019s the perjury that ensues, in both cases as to the police reports.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Public Defender Managing Attorney Bob Dunlap.<\/p><\/div>\n

The allegations of police misconduct and perjury has triggered a criminal investigation by the district attorney and an internal investigation by the police department. Public Defender Jeff Adachi is also calling for an independent investigation because, he said, District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n was the Chief of Police at the time of the arrests.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder these unique circumstances, the only way we\u2019re going to have true accountability is to bring in an independent investigator or an independent prosecutor to look at what happened here,\u201d Adachi said.<\/p>\n

Addressing the issue of a potential conflict of interest, Gasc\u00f3n maintained yesterday the district attorney\u2019s office is an independent investigative body. \u201cThe District Attorney\u2019s office is an independent unit. We are not part of the police department,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are taking this very seriously\u2026 but we also do not want to jump to any conclusions until we get to the bottom of this investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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District Attorney and former Police Chief, George Gasc\u00f3n.<\/p><\/div>\n

A total of 80 grams of heroin and one rock of crack cocaine were seized during the arrests.\u00a0 If convicted, the defendants faced twelve to sixteen years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The videos contradict police report testimony signed under penalty of perjury and reveal Police Department narcotics officers falsified the reports to justify searching two residences without warrants or consent as required by law, officials with the Public Defender\u2019s office announced yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nSurveillance Videos Prompt Investigations of Police Misconduct - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2676\/surveillance-videos-prompt-investigations-of-police-misconduct\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Surveillance Videos Prompt Investigations of Police Misconduct - 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