{"id":2688,"date":"2011-03-08T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2011-03-08T19:45:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T03:45:05","slug":"fourth-surveillance-video-further-exposes-sfpd-perjury-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2688\/fourth-surveillance-video-further-exposes-sfpd-perjury-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Surveillance Video Further Exposes SFPD Perjury, Misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/osxvI6AhtI0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 8, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Newly released surveillance video of a drug-related arrest at the Henry Hotel contradicts testimony provided in an SFPD police report signed under penalty of perjury.<\/p>\n<p>It is the fourth such video released in as many days by the public defender\u2019s office suggesting SFPD misconduct and perjury are routine practices.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2676\/surveillance-videos-prompt-investigations-of-police-misconduct\/\">Previously released videos<\/a> recorded at the Henry Hotel shows officers made arrests without a warrant or consent to search, and blocked a video surveillance camera to prevent the device from capturing evidence of an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest released surveillance video recorded on December 2, officers are observed arresting a man who entered a sixth floor unit at the Henry Hotel wearing a black jacket.  After using a master key to enter the unit, officers found crack cocaine and marijuana in a jacket, described in the report as \u201cwhite and tan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficer Buhagiar told me that he had observed [redacted] during his surveillance and saw him walk inside the Henry Hotel wearing this same jacket,\u201d Officer Razzak wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy client told officers repeatedly that it was not his jacket, that his jacket was right next to him,\u201d Public Defender Scott Sugarman said. \u201cPolice never put his statements in their report, never checked the video and never booked the black jacket into evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man served three weeks in jail before prosecutors dropped the case after a preliminary hearing showed the man wearing a black jacket.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said the latest video confirms a disturbing trend in which police officers routinely falsify police reports to bolster convictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was an innocent man who was framed,\u201d Adachi said. \u201cHe committed no crime and was arrested simply because he had the misfortune of visiting the Henry Hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Release of the surveillance videos has triggered several investigations. District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n and the FBI have each launched separate criminal investigations. Acting SFPD Police Chief Jeff Godown, who has temporarily shut down the plain clothes unit involved in drug interdiction, has launched an internal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the fourth such video release in as many days by the public defender\u2019s office suggesting SFPD misconduct and perjury are routine practices.<\/p>\n<p>Previously released videos recorded at the Henry Hotel shows officers made arrests without a warrant or consent to search, and blocked a video surveillance camera to prevent the device from capturing evidence of an arrest.<\/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-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fourth Surveillance Video Further Exposes SFPD Perjury, 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\/2688\/fourth-surveillance-video-further-exposes-sfpd-perjury-misconduct\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fourth Surveillance Video Further Exposes SFPD Perjury, Misconduct - Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is the fourth such video release in as many days by the public defender\u2019s office suggesting SFPD misconduct and perjury are routine practices.  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