Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive
April Fool’s day came and went. I thought for sure that was when the powers that be in San Rafael would reveal the results of their “thorough” investigation into the beating of a day-worker drinking beer in a parking lot in July 2022.
If you’ve seen the video, then you know it was a BS assault by police. Yet, the City of San Rafael, the DA’s office and the police department have yet to release their findings.
Now look, I know this is going to be filed in the folder labeled “No One Asked Me,” but the community needs closure. I think that means the SFPD cops who participated in this need official discipline. Firing seems too harsh to me, but I can see that some will advocate for it because they are still sore about George Floyd. It would be a big mistake to conflate what happened with George Floyd with what happened in San Rafael.
And, of course, the attorney representing the day worker will want a wheelbarrow full of money for himself … and his client. Par for the course.
Time to get on with this, San Rafael.
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(“Properly Subversive” is a commentary written by Sherman R. Frederick for Marinscope Community Newspapers, the “mother ship” of the Novato Advance, San Rafael News-Pointer, Mill Valley Herald, Ross Valley Reporter, Twin City Times and the Sausalito Marin Scope. Mr. Frederick is an award-winning journalist and co-founder of Battle Born Media, a news organization dedicated to the preservation of community newspapers. You can reach him by email at shermfrederick@gmail.com.)
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