Fielder is requesting more details about the types of officers deployed to both events, and whether those officers were on overtime or regular hours. Fielder also requested drone footage “of the 22-minute window of active enforcement at Trans March, between 7:40pm and 8:02pm,” and — if that was not available — “the number of officers that participated in the 22 minute window of active enforcement.”
Twenty-six people in total were arrested over Pride weekend this year: six at Trans March on charges of vandalism, and 20 the next evening at the so-called Stud Alley party on charges of unlawful assembly and resisting arrest. Those arrests — and dramatic videos of the officers making them — have raised questions as to the size and scale of SFPD’s response.
In response to Fielder’s initial letter of inquiry, Chief of Police Derrick Lew rejected Fielder’s description of SFPD’s response as “clashing with residents and visitors participating in Pride activities.”…