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The woman later identified as Amelia Jones, was nearby when she saw San Francisco Police Department officers “yank” someone to the ground and yelled for them to stop. Police, according to the complaint, responded by “aggressively” blocking her way and yanked her down as well, while letting others pass by on the same exact street. “Multiple officers violated San Francisco Police Department policies by using unnecessary force, failing to intervene in that wrongful use of force, and writing dishonest accounts of the arrest,” said Deputy Public Defender Brian Cox, who is the head the Integrity Unit of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. “Incidents like these demonstrate how police aggressively escalate interactions with community members when it is completely unnecessary, with disturbing and traumatic results” he stated.
According to the Public Defender’s Office, Jones was walking her bike down Sacramento Street the morning of July 24 toward her office near the intersection of Kearny Street. The the Police officers carrying batons and wearing riot gear were lined up across Sacramento at the intersection with Kearny while a protest was happening nearby. Jones, the complaint said, saw police pull a cyclist to the ground and was one of several bystanders to yell at the officers to just “stop hurting the person.”
Officers told Jones to get back and Jones tried to approach the intersection and an officer “shoved her in the back” as she turned away from them, “I’m on my way to work, I’m on the phone with my coworkers, and I’m just trying to help someone,” she told officers, according to the complaint filed.
Jones was later arrested and charged with resisting/obstructing an executive officer, battery on a peace officer, and resisting arrest. According to the Public Defender’s Office, SFPD body-worn camera footage contradicts how the officers described the incident in their police report.
According to the complaint, Jones was panicked by the officer’s actions, and then she began screaming for help and raised her arms. An officer shoved her and as she brought her arms down, she touched one of the officer’s helmet that he was wearing. The incident was all captured on SFPD body-worn camera footage shown to you in this video.
It was at that point that the SFPD violently tackled her to the ground. In this disturbing body-worn camera footage Jones can be heard telling the officers she has a shoulder injury and shouting to them “I’m in pain.” Officers can be heard telling her to “stop spitting” while she is being cuffed with her hands behind her back, face down on the sidewalk.
“These are your choices, you made this choice,” one of the officer’s can be heard telling Jones, who can be heard sobbing and telling officers that she “can’t see anything.” Later in the body cam video, the officers offer to roll Jones over on her side to make her more comfortable if she doesn’t kick at them. “No kicking,” an officer is heard telling her, “I know it’s very exciting to have people cheering for you,” an officer then tells Jones while she’s cuffed, face down on the pavement. “Your fanbase is gone, so you’re not really performing for anyone right now,” the same officer later on said, “I was just walking to work, I wasn’t even in the protest,” Jones says at one point in the video. “You guys were literally assaulted someone up there, all I said was ‘stop,’ and then all of a sudden you guys are on f***ing top of me, and now I’m arrested? This is insane!” Jones can be heard saying at one point of the altercation. “I’m a citizen of the United States! Jesus Christ! This is insane!” she exclaims at another point in the video. “I would like to hold police accountable for their misconduct, which has caused me a lot of anguish and pain,” then said Jones. “There have been multiple women on local San Francisco news who have also been forcibly arrested by police for either minor transgressions or nothing at all. Women just crossing the street, on their way to work, or selling hot dogs. Our police are trained to react with aggression and violence. That erodes trust.”
Despite Jones having no prior criminal record, the report alleges that Jones was held in the San Francisco County Jail for 36 hours. A judge who later on reviewed the body-cam footage dismissed all charges against her.
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