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SFPD to share body-cam video of woman’s hot dog vending arrest

In response to public outcry over bystander video of police wrestling with a struggling female hot dog vendor, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said on Wednesday that he expects to release the involved officers’ body-worn camera footage. Scott said he saw no wrongdoing by the police after reviewing all the body-worn camera footage from the officers who were involved in a back-and-forth between the woman, who was selling hot dogs near Pier 33, and city workers who were attempting to confiscate her cart. “There is nothing that I saw in this video that officers or anybody else involved did anything other than what they were asked to do, in the way that they were asked to do it,” Scott said before the Police Commission on Wednesday. “I saw nothing that indicated misconduct.” Ana Luisa Casimer Julca, the 25-year-old pregnant woman who was […]

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Bill on street vending enforcement dies, and Mission vending ban

Nearly three months after Sen. Scott Wiener and Mayor London Breed announced the introduction of a California state bill that would have given police authority to ticket and even arrest people selling stolen goods, the legislation quietly died in the State Assembly.SB 925’s path in Sacramento was cut short on Aug. 15 when it was held under submission, a term used when members of a committee want further discussion. Wiener said, however, in plain words this means his bill is dead.The very next day, on Aug. 16, San Francisco took action by extending the Mission Street vending ban for another six months. The moratorium on street vending, which has been in place since Nov. 27, had been already extended early this year for six months and was set to end on Aug. 27.“I was very disappointed. It’s a high priority […]

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