The footage dates back to December 2024 but was publicly released after San Leandro Police Internal Affairs Sgt. Mike Olivera discovered it while reviewing older body camera videos and filed a nine-page complaint with the city on this and “other issues.”
Mike Rains, Olivera’s attorney, stated, “When you apply force to people, you handcuff them, and that happens, you have to make sure you’re making a record of it. And the best record you can make is you take him into custody. You tell them they’re under arrest, you write a report, you let the DA sort it out.”
The arresting officers failed to document the incident despite it involving the use of force against the unhoused man, identified as 33-year-old Shaquille Coleman…