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new insight into how San Francisco police handled the investigation into a New Year's attack on a Yale University choir. Many are saying it was mishandled. Now the story is getting coverage around the country and the world. We're doing a running tally -- it's been 10 days and 17 hours since police responded to the attack on the Yale students, and they still haven't interviewed the victims. This case is getting city officials the kind of attention they do not want, around the world. Since the I-Team broke the story of the New Year's attack on the Yale singing...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday defended his handling of a police video that showed a white officer driving over a black homeless woman and poked fun at racial stereotypes, amid criticism that he was hasty in condemning the clips. Newsom rejected arguments that the tapes were never meant to be shown publicly and simply contained in-house police jokes, saying he didn't "think it was fun and games" to laugh at ethnic stereotypes. "You can't just turn a blind eye to the insensitivity in these videos," an animated Newsom said Wednesday. Twenty-four officers from the Bayview station were...