Posted on 12/09/2005 2:19:28 PM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- The highest-ranking San Francisco police officer facing suspension in connection with video skits that city officials have labeled sexist and racist accused Mayor Gavin Newsom and Police Chief Heather Fong of smearing his name and demanded a public apology.
Capt. Rick Bruce, 49, has been on leave from the Bayview station for the past four months for reasons unrelated to the videos. One of the skits shows several people, including other officers, a homeless woman and a transgender person, rolling their tongues suggestively and saying, "Oh, captain." The video shows Bruce flicking his tongue in separate shots in return.
In a press conference at his lawyer's office, Bruce said today that the shots of him were old footage from training videos, in which he would roll his tongue to signal that he had made a mistake and needed to reshoot a scene. He said he had no idea a Bayview station officer had edited the footage into the video skit.
"I'm deeply disturbed that the mayor and the chief of police saw fit to release this video to (a) press conference -- a video that prominently features my image -- and neither of them took the five minutes that it would have taken to ask me about my participation in the video," Bruce said.
"I'm asking that the mayor of this city and chief of police acknowledge now that I've had nothing to do with the production of this video, and that they do it publicly and with the same zeal that they had when they conducted their press conference," Bruce said.
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Good lord. It's George Takei.
I can see from that photo why Fong was mad. She is Asian, Lesbian and Transgendered all in one.
Because he stepped on a rainbow flag on his way to the Coke machine.
Because the other star of the "training" video was Lorena Bobbit.
Those asshats really need to grow a sense of humor.... But alas, liberals apparently have no capacity for that. (One more reason to seriously wonder whether ardent leftism is a mental condition.)
Totally off topic, but video related.
If you haven't seen the video of the youth pastor making the mother of all blunders during his sermon, check out this link:
http://www.shipoffools.com/Signs/blunders.html
(click where it says "click here" beside the picture of the youth pastor)
His tongue is not rolled.
Apparently San Fran has managed to expel on the evil heterosexual white males from power. That's why their city is such an incredible paradise. I hear that every homeless person can tap dance and it rains gumdrops every Tuesday.
Wow--that was quick.
Thank God she mates only once every seven years.
It is a typo.
It is supposed to read "the half-cocked Mayor, and the Police Chief, in a heifer thong,...".
Actually, she was spruced up for that photo!
You should see her without the make-up!
San Fransicko Police Chief Leather Thong
Not me it took this long for my eyes to come back to me, I wouldnt risk another look.
LOL - I just knew everyone would just love that picture. Kinda gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling doesn't it? (HEE HEE)
Its the local jargon meaning 'a police chief with less than a year of experience in a patrol car'.
Well: They needed a female police Chief to show their diversity. Its happening a lot, promoting women to raise the numbers in the higher ranks. I have seen it in Washington DC. Its affirmative action only with women.
The sad thing is, the SFPD still has a lot of old-school no-nonsense white male (many of them Irish) police officers - the ones who dealt with the anti-war lunatics so effectively. The diversity hires seem to be doing everything they can to reduce the power and influence of this group within the department, while still keeping them around to rely on in the event of a real emergency. They like having the white males as as rank-and-file shock troops, just not as captains.
It looks like she hit every branch on the way down.
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