Video Contradicts SFPD Lies: Provocative Cops Escalate & Excite Themselves Before Shooting Black Man in Groin

Cops Lie All Day, Everyday. From [HERE] amd [HERE] The day after San Francisco police Officer Kenneth Cha shot a mentally ill Blcak man on his doorstep in the Oceanview neighborhood, the officer sat down with investigators and made a brief video recorded statement as is required by a recently completed department order. 

Cha shot Sean Moore on Jan. 6 after responding to a home at 515 Capitol Ave. at 4:15 a.m. with his partner, Officer Colin Patino, regarding a restraining order. Moore had allegedly been banging on the inner wall of his home and his neighbor called the police. 

In his police statement, Cha described Moore as “irate” and “aggressive,” and said he charged the pair of officers several times and they responded with pepper spray and a baton. Cha sprayed Moore and his partner on the narrow steps leading to Moore’s home before shooting Moore, who was only recently released from a hospital. “I shot the suspect two times with my firearm … in order to defend myself and my partner from serious bodily harm,” said Cha at the end of his statement.

Acting SFPD Chief Toney Chaplin defended his officers' behavior, saying that (per the Ex) "Moore allegedly grabbed the restraining order paperwork from one of the officer’s hands. The officer’s partner deployed pepper spray. In response, Moore kicked an officer in the face, resulting in cuts and bruises...The police retreated down the stairs, at which point Moore came through the gate."

"Officers moved to arrest him, and one officer hit him with a baton,” Commender Greg McEachern of SFPD's Investigations Bureau says. “Moore punched the officer in face, and advanced on the second officer, who fired his weapon as he was retreating down the steps.”

But body camera video released last Wednesday by the Public Defenders office appears to tell a different story. Public Defender Jeff Adachi released the footage from one of the officers’ body-worn cameras in a bid to have charges dropped against Moore. Police had declined to release the video — the first to capture a shooting since San Francisco gave officers the Taser Axon cameras last year — saying it might taint the investigation. 

The San Francisco bodycam video depicts an eight-minute encounter in the early morning of Jan. 6, which began when two officers responded to reports of a restraining-order violation.

The video shows an irate and verbally combative Moore. He is at the top of the stairs leading to his front door. He immediately responds to the officers in an aggressive verbal manner, cursing them, calling them names and telling them to get off his steps. He is not nice to the cops as he stands behind a locked, security gate.

But claims by police that Moore charged the pair of officers are not accurate. In fact, it appears that Cha was moving toward Moore when he fired two shots at a retreating Moore.

In the video it is clear that Moore is mentally ill or impaired. Instead of attempting to de-escalate the situation the cops are sarcastic with Moore and appear to be trying to provoke him. The cops laugh and are jokey and condescending. Early on they also probe to provoke him, "did you spit on me?" "are you threatening me?"  But, the situation escalates as the provocative cops appear to be offended or in their feelings by Moore's loud, offensive response to their presence at his home. Although the cops are especially trained to resist provaction by verbal abuse that might provoke or offend the ordinary person, the thin skinned cops, lose patience with Moore.   

Moore eventually opens his gate and continues talking trash to cops. He has a phone in his left hand. With his right hand up waiving no he says "get off my stairs." The cops move foward to grab him as Moore retreats. One of the cops pepper sprays Moore. Moore then attempts a kick in the direction of officer Patino - which does not appear to land. Moore quickly turns to get back inside the gate and does.  The frightened police quickly move back down the steps and in the process they appear to drop papers they came to serve Moore with. It is not clear but apparently Moore reaches down to the ground and picks up the papers the scared cop dropped. [Cops claim he snatched the papers from him] Moore then quickly retreats once again back into the gate with the paper.

While the cops are at the bottom of the steps officer Patino says "aw fuck" in pain. It is not clear but it seems Officer Cha pepper sprayed Officer Patino in the face by accident? Moore did not any have pepper spray so.... now the cops are really in their feelings - and they need their papers back! 

Already pepper sprayed, it appears that the clearly troubled Moore — who is obviously agitated, and, make no mistake, is verbally abusive and uncooperative with police — retreated into his home with the paperwork. The officers then repeatedly scream at Moore to come back outside, saying they need their papers back and yelling threats, taunts and profanity at Moore, who has been diagnosed as bi-polar and schizophrenic, Public Defender Brian Pearlman says.

"Fuck you!" you hear an officer say to an already pepper-sprayed Moore in the footage. The cop says, "What's up, motherfucker? Come here! Come here!"

Moore throws the papers to the officers through the gate. Then Moore changes his mind and as he steps back out to retrieve them, is charged by the police, who chase him up the stairs as they fire shots.

“We feel that the video clearly demonstrates that the police version put forward was incorrect,” Adachi said at a press conference Wednesday. “This is a situation where Mr. Moore did not have to be shot. If the officers had used de-escalation techniques, they could have gone home.”

Adachi said the video shows the officers escalating the situation by aggressively dealing with an already agitated man.

“If you look at basic de-escalation 101, you talk to the person, you try and get the person in a place where they are calmer, and if the person is making reasonable requests — in this case for the officers to step off his stairs — they could have done that without endangering themselves or Mr. Moore,” Adachi said. “There’s obviously a big gap between what the officers are being told at the academy and what is being done at the street.”

Moore was struck in the stomach and groin by bullets. He was charged by city prosecutors with assaulting a peace officer, making criminal threats, resisting arrest and other charges. He is being held on $2 million bail.

Though requests for the video footage's release have been made to the SFPD by multiple news organizations, all those requests were denied. The PD's office, however, was able to gain access to the footage as they will be defending Moore, who was arraigned and pleaded not guilty last Friday to charges including criminal threats, threats against an officer, assault and battery on an officer and resisting arrest.