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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Sounds like he has a strong case.
I happen to like the pink "as commander Rick Bruce"
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Are there any MEN running this city???
The mayor is a fag
The police Chief is a woman
The supervisor is a woman
Newsome is an idiot ... Heather Fong is an incompetent fool
San Fransicko deserves them both
Fong seems like a real piece of work. The rank and file must just love her...NOT.
Newsom had the same humorless reaction several months ago to the 49ers videos.
LOL. Probably lost the other half in some bath house.
What the hell is a Heatherfong.
But the SF cops sure have a great sense of humor!
If I were him I'd sue.
That said, why has he been out of work for 4 months?
I saw some clips of this.
Actually pretty funny and nothing compared to Comedy Central in terms of being 'offensive'
Heather Fong.
"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."
Why not just say "cut"?
Ohh Lord , I have been struck blind. My god what a horrible sight. Somebody beat her in the face with the grapes of wrath.
He ripped off Michael Corleone with that syntax: "I challenge this committee to produce any witness or evidence against me. And if they do not, I hope they will have the decency to clear my name with the same publicity with which they now have besmirched it." (Godfather II)
Now theres a picture of pride. She takes on the meanest lesbians in SF...from behind her desk of course.
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