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Residents urge action after Thanksgiving Bayview raid; commission asks chief for closed-session briefing
Summary
Residents, community groups and a woman who said officers pulled her from the shower on Thanksgiving urged the San Francisco Police Commission to hold officers accountable; Commissioners asked the chief to brief them in closed session and the OCC said it has opened a priority investigation.
Dozens of residents and community groups pressed the San Francisco Police Commission on Dec. 5 over an incident they said occurred on Thanksgiving in Bayview Hunters Point, in which officers entered a home and removed a woman while she was showering.
"I am the victim," Joanne Abernathy told the commission, describing officers entering her house on Thanksgiving, not showing a warrant and using force against family members. Community groups including Power and the W. Hayward Burns Institute called for the immediate…
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