The SF Public Defender’s Office filed a complaint this week with the city’s Department of Police Accountability in connection with an August 2025 incident in which they say two men were wrongfully detained and abused at the hands of police in the Hunters Point neighborhood.
According to the complaint, SFPD officers were called to the area just before midnight on August 30, 2025 by a woman whose car had broken down. She told officers that her boyfriend had been physically abusing her and had just run off. She reportedly told the officers that her boyfriend was “Black, 5’5” tall, with curly hair, and wearing a black hoodie with red rhinestones in a spider design, as well as black sweats and Crocs.” She also reportedly told the officers that he may have run to his grandmother’s house on Quesada Avenue.
The officers then began searching the area and spotted a 22-year-old Black man on Quesada Avenue who is 5-foot-two-inches tall and who was wearing a brown hoodie with white lettering, and white sweatpants. Despite not matching the description, the Public Defender’s Office says that the officers pursued the man, who is not being publicly identified because charges against him were dismissed…