The city will ask a judge to toss out claims that SFPD violated civil rights during the July 2023 Dolores Park hill bomb mass arrest.
San Francisco police officers walking across Dolores Park during the 2023 hill bomb operation. Photo by Joe Rivano Barros. July 8, 2023.the claims
The lawsuit alleges that officers involved directly in the arrest and top police brass — Police Chief William Scott, Mission Station Captain Thomas Harvey, and Lieutenant Matt Sullivan — violated the plaintiffs’ civil rights by unlawfully targeting them for arrest without cause and holding them in conditions that violated department policy. A fourth teenager, 15, filed a
Lederman, for her part, said the city’s motion was filled with “misinformation and exaggeration,” and that the city was attempting to discredit her clients. Many in the crowd reacted by throwing glass bottles at the police and vandalizing nearby buses and a tram; one officer was sliced on the forehead, allegedly by a 15-year-old girl’s nail when the officer and others arrested her teenaged boyfriend.
The district attorney’s office said that at least seven people were charged with various crimes stemming from that day, and several convicted. It is unclear if any of those charged or convicted were part of the 113 arrested en masse, but none are the named plaintiffs.
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