when SFPD shut down the party known as \u201cstud alley\u201d<\/a> and arrested 18 people. Roman called the police response that night \u201chorrifying\u201d.<\/p>\n\u201cThey came, like, fully militarized in riot gear with batons and shields and helmets, which is just clearly not an appropriate or proportionate response to a gathering of people dancing in the street,\u201d said Roman. <\/p>\n
The defense team is arguing that because the police never issued a dispersal order, the case should be dismissed. They point to body-cam footage that was released this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was one point in the body-worn camera where they’re basically kneeling on one of our client’s head yelling, ‘Don’t move, or I’m gonna punch you in the […] face,'” Kate Raven, one of the defense attorneys in the case, told KALW. <\/p>\n
Raven said that it took their team a few days to wade through the body-cam footage, and that it was disturbing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was completely unprepared for the brutality of the blitz attack of San Francisco Police Department,” explained Raven. “And I was a public defender for a long time. Like, I shouldn’t be able to be that shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is prosecuting the case. She\u2019s charging the defendants with \u200abeing present at an unlawful assembly, failing to disperse, and with resisting arrest or obstructing a police officer.<\/p>\n
KALW reached out to Jenkins’ office and was told that “This is a pending criminal case. We will address the facts and legal issues through the court process and will not litigate the matter through the media.”<\/p>\n
Jenkins’ team told the judge this morning that they hadn\u2019t had time to respond to each individual motion in the case, so they asked to postpone the trial.<\/p>\n
The defendants go back to court on September 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People rallied outside of the San Francisco courthouse on Bryant Street Thursday morning to offer their support to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-452823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}