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In another episode of alleged police misconduct and perjury, Jefferson Hotel tenant Fernando Santana points to a duffel bag on surveillance video that he said plain-clothed SFPD Officer Guerrero stole from him after illegally searching his room without consent. Photos by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n

From the Office of Public Defender Jeff Adachi<\/em><\/p>\n

May 11, 2011<\/p>\n

A troubling surveillance video<\/a> released by the Public Defender Jeff Adachi today reveals San Francisco Police Department officers physically attacking a bystander after illegally searching the room of a residential hotel resident.<\/p>\n

The footage, the latest in a string of videos<\/a> revealing serious police misconduct, prompted Adachi to renew his call for police to employ a zero tolerance policy for officers who commit perjury.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Police Chief Greg Suhr taking the helm, the time is ripe for a culture change in our city\u2019s police department,\u201d Adachi said. \u201cOfficers who are caught breaking the laws they should be upholding or brutalizing the citizens they should be protecting have no place serving San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Public Defender Jeff Adachi.<\/p><\/div>\n

The latest video, which shows a Dec. 30, 2010 drug arrest at the Jefferson Hotel, contradicts police officers\u2019 sworn statement on several counts and appears to support the resident\u2019s claim officers stole his property. In the report, police justify detaining 48-year-old Fernando Santana in the hotel lobby after claiming to see crack cocaine in his outstretched hand.<\/p>\n

In the video, however, Santana\u2019s hands are in his pockets. Police, who claim to have Santana\u2019s permission to search his residence, are seen on surveillance tape searching the room while a handcuffed Santana shakes his head.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most shocking moment of the video occurs several minutes into the search, when a bystander is seen casually walking up to the room and peeking inside. As he begins to walk away, Officers Ricardo Guerrero and Peter Richardson sprint from the room and violently tackle him in the hallway, placing him in a choke hold. The officers hold the bystander while Officer Robert Sanchez and Sergeant Kevin Healy search him, finding nothing. The man is released. In the police report, this interaction is described only as a brief detention.<\/p>\n

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Bystander Joseph Meires said plain-clothed Officers Ricardo Guerrero and Peter Richardson attacked him and placed him in a choke hold after he peeked inside the residency where police were illegally searching Fernando Santana's possessions.<\/p><\/div>\n

Santana, who was arrested for possession for sale of crack cocaine, filed a police report following his release from jail after realizing a black bag duffel bag and numerous electronics and other valuables were missing from his room. Santana believed hotel personnel had stolen the property while he was incarcerated. However, the surveillance video, which was obtained after Santana reported the items stolen, shows Guerrero walking out of Santana\u2019s room with a full black duffel bag. The bag was never booked into evidence nor mentioned in the police report, said Santana\u2019s attorney, Deputy Public Defender Qiana Washington.<\/p>\n

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Public Defender Qiana Washington.<\/p><\/div>\n

Other important aspects of the arrest left out of the police report but revealed in the footage include officers searching Santana\u2019s lobby mailbox and Guerrero visiting other floors of the hotel prior to directing his attention to Santana. Guerrero testified in a May 5 hearing that he followed Santana into the hotel after seeing him conducting a narcotics transaction outside. In fact, video footage shows Guerrero enter the hotel just ahead of Santana, go directly upstairs and wander through several floors. It was only after Guerrero left the hotel and later returned that Santana was detained, searched, and arrested. Guerrero\u2019s initial entry into the hotel was omitted from the police report as well as his testimony at the May 5 hearing.<\/p>\n

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Carol Yaggy dismissed the case against Santana May 5 after Sanchez did not show up to court, despite a subpoena requiring him to testify. Santana was prepared to take the stand and describe how supervising officer Sgt. Jacob Fegan instructed him where to sign a document at the police station, despite Santana\u2019s pleas that he could not read the form. The document turned out to be a consent form to search his residence.<\/p>\n

Chief Attorney Matt Gonzalez of the San Francisco Public Defender\u2019s Office said each hotel surveillance tape acquired by his office has shown inconsistencies with police reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve yet to run across a single video that matches up with what police swear to in their report,\u201d Gonzalez said. Adachi and Gonzalez have also called upon the Board of Supervisors to draft legislation outlawing the use of residential hotel master keys by police.<\/p>\n

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Public Defender Chief Attorney Matt Gonzalez.<\/p><\/div>\n

Officers involved in the Dec. 30 arrest are Ricardo Guerrero, Reynaldo Vargas, Jacob Fegan, Peter Richardson, Robert Sanchez and Kevin Healy. In 2009, Guerrero was the subject of a New York Times article that identified him as one of the highest-paid police officers in San Francisco. Guerrero earned $223,170 in 2008, according to the New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The footage, the latest in a string of videos revealing serious police misconduct, prompted Adachi to renew his call for police to employ a zero tolerance policy for officers who commit perjury.<\/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-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nVideo Reveals Illegal Searches, Police Brutality - 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\/2814\/video-reveals-illegal-searches-police-brutality\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Video Reveals Illegal Searches, Police Brutality - 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