The San Francisco Examiner had a very interesting story on Tuesday about how members of the Police Department are apparently breaking the law in San Francisco by participating in FBI interviews of persons like 29-year-old software engineer Sarmad Gilani, who was visited at his office last June by an FBI agent along with SFPD officer Gavin McEachern, who gave Gilani his card.
"A city ordinance passed in 2012 prohibits this kind of involvement as a means to protect against civil-liberties abuses," notes the article by the Examiner's Jonah Owen Lamb:
According to the Examiner, the SFPD told the Police Commission only a few weeks ago in a report that its officers on the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force have not participated in such interviews. But now we have direct evidence that this claim was false.
Was the Police Commission knowingly lied to? Are they going to make any effort to find out? Will they hold officers like McEachern who broke the law accountable, and take steps to ensure the practice does not continue?
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
Outreach Director, Libertarian Party of San Francisco
P.S. to the Police Commission clerk -- please forward this message to all members of the Police Commission.