The San Francisco Police Commission held its regular meeting on September 9, 2026, at 1:30 PM. Commissioners present: Lowe, Scott, Leong, Benedicto, Lyas (arrived later), Vice President Techie, President Clay. Also present: Chief Liu (SFPD) and Executive Director Paul Henderson (DPA). Items 6 and 7 (Department General Orders 5.14 and 8.11) were removed from the agenda and will be taken up at a future meeting.
Commissioner Lowe. Here. Commissioner Scott. Here. Commissioner Le Young. Here. Commissioner Benedicto. Here. Commissioner Lyas is in route. Vice President Techie. Here. President Clay, you have a quorum. Also with us tonight, our Chief Liu from the San Francisco Police Department and Executive Director Paul Henderson from the Department of Police Accountability. All right. Thank you, everyone, for being here at our September 9th meeting. Sergeant, can we please start the meeting? One item of business first. We are going to remove items six and seven from tonight's agenda, and they will be on a future agenda in another Commission meeting. All right. Line item one, general public comment. At this time, the public is now welcome to address the Commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission. Under police commission rules of order during public comment, neither police or DPA personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. Alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways. Email the Secretary of the Police Commission at SFPD.commission at SFGUB.org. A written comments may be sent via U.S. Postal Service to the Public Safety Building located at 1245 Third Street, San Francisco, California at 94158. If you'd like to make public comment, please approach the podium. I am here to discuss three items related to SFPD's use of violence at Trans March in Stud Alley on June 26th and 27th. Firstly, does SFPD have any updates on the progress of scheduling a town hall meeting? If no progress has been made, I wish to remind the Department that community engagement and trust are priorities of the San Francisco Police Department, which could be fostered through a town hall meeting. Additionally, there is a precedent that these meetings can happen while investigations are ongoing. Secondly, I have heard no comment regarding the number of officers present at Transmarch on June 26th during the 22-minute active enforcement window. How many officers were present when the department was recklessly escalating a few vandalism arrests into full-scale violence? I am still shocked that the department does not know or cannot specify the number of officers present at that time. Wouldn't the Commission as well want to know this number? As stated during last week's meeting, I imagine that performing this head count is both a relatively simple and achievable task, assuming adequate uh oversight and record keeping are in place. Thirdly, I want to discuss the discrepancies between the response to Supervisor Fielder's letter of inquiry and the information revealed in a recent mission local article. In short, why did the department lie to Supervisor Fielder in its response to her LOI or otherwise fail to correct a mistake in said letter? I implore this Commission to investigate this discrepancy. What was the decision-making process during the drafting of the response to Supervisor Fielder? When drafting the letter, did the department know that Lieutenant Conroy Tam nor any other officers present had not given a dispersal order on Washburn Street until after arrests were made? I hope to see these questions, plus any more that could arise through a formal investigation answered by the police commission, DPA, or SFPD. Hello, everyone. Good to see everyone again. Again, as I tell everyone, I come here every Wednesday. I missed last Wednesday because I had some family emergencies. I just found some pictures of him when he was a young boy. You know, um, just sitting there being happy. Um just looking at pictures. Um I bring all of these pictures with me of unsolved homicides.