The woman was left with injuries that required multiple hospital visits, she said. She plans to pursue a civil case against the officer.
Surveillance video from a corner store shows an SFPD officer slamming a Black woman into the wall during a jaywalking stop.A San Francisco police officer slammed a Black mother of five into a wall during a July 29 jaywalking stop in the Richmond District, according to camera footage from a nearby corner store. The incident resulted in multiple hospital visits, the victim said.
Footage from a corner store and onlookers documents the escalation of a July 29 stop made ostensibly for jaywalking.But an SFPD police van immediately flashes its lights after Porter crosses the street. The next four minutes of footage document the escalation of a stop made ostensibly for jaywalking, which can result in a ticket if a pedestrian crosses on a red light.
Porter was ultimately released with a citation for resisting arrest — a misdemeanor for which her attorney Adante Pointer, a civil rights trial lawyer, said she will be required to appear in court. A copy of the citation reviewed by Mission Local also dings Porter for crossing on a red light. The SFPD wrote in an email that it was unable to locate an incident report for the jaywalking stop and cannot “confirm or provide any information” without an incident report. But, the department said, “we generally do not confirm any use of force used during incidents especially in open investigations.”
Pointer, Porter’s attorney, called the incident an “unreasonable detention by way of the use of force.” He noted that “SFPD has theto not use jaywalking as a reason” to stop someone to conduct a deeper investigation. The policy restricting pretext stops went into effect this month. Pointer added that Porter recalls McFall first asking her “what she was doing” and “where she was going.”
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