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Tongue-rolling captain in video skit demands apology [San Francisco]
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/9/5 | Jaxon Van Derbeken and Charlie Goodyear

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: funnyvideo; sfpd; videocops
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1 posted on 12/09/2005 2:19:29 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Sounds like he has a strong case.


2 posted on 12/09/2005 2:21:16 PM PST by samadams2000 (Nothing fills the void of a passing hurricane better than government)
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To: SmithL

I happen to like the pink "as commander Rick Bruce"


3 posted on 12/09/2005 2:21:29 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: SmithL
Sounds like Newsome has gone off half-cocked.

(!)

4 posted on 12/09/2005 2:23:00 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: SmithL
Okay, I am not a movie star or anything but why not say, "I made a mistake and I need to re-shoot the scene" rather than roll your tongue?
5 posted on 12/09/2005 2:23:40 PM PST by msnimje (Everyday there is a new example of the Democrats "Culture of Dementia")
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To: SmithL

Are there any MEN running this city???

The mayor is a fag

The police Chief is a woman

The supervisor is a woman


6 posted on 12/09/2005 2:24:21 PM PST by digger48
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To: atomicpossum
Sounds like Newsome has gone off half-cocked.

Is that why his wife divorced him?
7 posted on 12/09/2005 2:24:25 PM PST by msnimje (Everyday there is a new example of the Democrats "Culture of Dementia")
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To: atomicpossum

Newsome is an idiot ... Heather Fong is an incompetent fool
San Fransicko deserves them both


8 posted on 12/09/2005 2:24:36 PM PST by clamper1797 (Proud member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club VA-93 aboard the USS Midway CVA-41 1972-1973)
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To: samadams2000

Fong seems like a real piece of work. The rank and file must just love her...NOT.


9 posted on 12/09/2005 2:25:09 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: atomicpossum

Newsom had the same humorless reaction several months ago to the 49ers videos.


10 posted on 12/09/2005 2:25:27 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: atomicpossum
Sounds like Newsome has gone off half-cocked.

LOL. Probably lost the other half in some bath house.

11 posted on 12/09/2005 2:25:55 PM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: clamper1797

What the hell is a Heatherfong.


12 posted on 12/09/2005 2:26:23 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: digger48
The mayor is a fag The police Chief is a woman The supervisor is a woman

But the SF cops sure have a great sense of humor!

13 posted on 12/09/2005 2:26:37 PM PST by Jigsaw John
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To: SmithL

If I were him I'd sue.

That said, why has he been out of work for 4 months?


14 posted on 12/09/2005 2:27:57 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: Jigsaw John

I saw some clips of this.

Actually pretty funny and nothing compared to Comedy Central in terms of being 'offensive'


15 posted on 12/09/2005 2:30:01 PM PST by digger48
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To: SmithL; samadams2000; EQAndyBuzz; atomicpossum; msnimje; digger48; clamper1797; ncountylee; ...

Heather Fong.

16 posted on 12/09/2005 2:36:29 PM PST by Enterprise (The modern Democrat Party - a toxic stew of mental illness, cultism, and organized crime.)
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To: SmithL

"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"?


17 posted on 12/09/2005 2:39:39 PM PST by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: Enterprise

Ohh Lord , I have been struck blind. My god what a horrible sight. Somebody beat her in the face with the grapes of wrath.


18 posted on 12/09/2005 2:41:35 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: SmithL
"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,"

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)

19 posted on 12/09/2005 2:43:45 PM PST by montag813
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To: Enterprise

Now theres a picture of pride. She takes on the meanest lesbians in SF...from behind her desk of course.


20 posted on 12/09/2005 2:43:55 PM PST by samadams2000 (Nothing fills the void of a passing hurricane better than government)
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