'It's hard to talk about.' Shaquille Coleman committed no crime, but San Leandro police violently detained and dumped him seven miles away in Oakland. And now, activists are targeting the lieutenant who approved the 'dumping' and even laughed about it.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 5:27AM
Shaquille Coleman told ABC7 Eyewitness I-Team's Dan Noyes, 'It's hard to talk about. It's hard to even grasp the situation because I didn't think nothing like that would happen to me.' We tracked down the homeless man at the center of controversy. He committed no crime, but San Leandro police violently detained him and dumped him seven miles away in Oakland. There's also a new fallout from that exclusive report centered around the bodycam video obtained by the I-Team. Activists are targeting the lieutenant from that video. She approved Shaquille Coleman getting dumped seven miles away, even laughed about it. Now, she's facing calls to be fired.
Bodycam video captured San Leandro police officers handcuffing a homeless man at a strip mall, and then'dumping' him seven miles away in Oakland. From the day we obtained this body-worn camera video, the I-Team has been looking for Shaquille Coleman. San Leandro police handcuffed the 33-year-old homeless man in December 2024, pushed and pulled him into a patrol car, ripping out his braids, drove him seven miles into Oakland and dumped him in the night - even though he had committed no crime. Officer Suzanne Mann told him after the drive to Oakland, 'All right, sir. You can grab your stuff and take off, man.'
The owner of San Francisco's Tenderloin Deli saw the I-Team report and set up a meeting for us with Shaquille Coleman.'Oh, I told you I always see him in the neighborhood, I know him. We talk all the time.' Coleman is now living on the streets of the Tenderloin. He lost an eye in a shooting a few years ago, and when we met, he was not in good shape.'On your arm? Damn, still bleeding, huh?'
San Leandro police chief investigated for hit and run: Here's why she hasn't been charged The NAACP is expressing outrage after the I-Team's report showing San Leandro officers on bodycam video'dumping' a homeless man in Oakland. He was surprised to hear that we obtained the bodycam video of his incident and wanted to see our story, but after just a few seconds, the tears came. It was too much to bear.'However we go forward from here, that's all that matters. I don't want to speak on the past. This s**t is even too hard to look at. I don't want to talk about it. It's just making me depressed, bruh.' Coleman told us he would like to file a lawsuit over how police mistreated him, and that he'd like to discuss it further.
We returned the next day at the time we set, but he didn't show up. A crowd of people spoke in support of Shaquille Coleman at last night's BART Police Civilian Review Board. Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project said, 'I'm going to guess you all are sitting in these seats, because those are not the kinds of cops that you want on our streets.' They are targeting the San Leandro police lieutenant who was there, overseeing the treatment of Shaquille Coleman that night. Antwinette Turner approved the decision to dump him in Oakland away from any BART station.'Because then he'd just come back.''No, he's just going to come back and be a problem, lieutenant. .''I will get him out of here and there's no BART station, it's going to take him awhile to get back from over there.'
Antwinette Turner is now the BART Police Deputy Chief in charge of Progressive Policing and Community Engagement. Some of the speakers last night focused on her smiling during the incident while discussing how to handle Shaquille Coleman. Robert Bowden from All of Us or None said, 'And the lieutenant thought it was funny. She laughing while this man is being violated and disrespected. Is she getting paid my hard earned tax money to laugh while she playing games and laughing at this man getting violated, ain't did nothing?'
The NAACP is expressing outrage after the I-Team's report showing San Leandro officers on bodycam video'dumping' a homeless man in Oakland. After the meeting, the I-Team's Dan Noyes approached BART Police Chief Kevin Franklin. He defended hiring Antwinette Turner as head of progressive policing. 'And I have confidence that she is able to lead and grow our progressive police and community engagement bureau,' he said. Franklin told us he was aware of the Shaquille Coleman incident, it was part of Turner's background check, but that he never saw the bodycam video.
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