Several San Francisco police officers piled onto a 23-year-old inside his Bayview bedroom and “punched” him repeatedly during a racially-motivated 2025 arrest, the public defender’s office alleged in a complaint filed with the city’s police watchdog department on Wednesday.
The officers “slammed” another man into the cement and, at one point, pepper-sprayed a woman in a wheelchair when she tried to defend her brother, wrote Brian Cox, head of the public defender’s integrity unit, in a letter to Paul Henderson, executive director of the Department of Police Accountability.
A San Francisco Police Department spokesperson declined to comment on the open complaint. The charges against both men were later dismissed…