Officers Review Dacari Spiers Beating Footage: 'This Was F****d From The Start'

San Francisco CA

18 February, 2022

6:33 PM

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By Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local February 17, 2022 "Suboptimal policing." That's the most generous assessment from half a dozen veteran cops regarding the October 2019 interaction that put unarmed Black man Dacari Spiers in the hospital and led to the ongoing criminal trial of Officer Terrance Stangel for striking him eight times with a metal baton. The half-dozen current and former San Francisco cops, with cumulative experience of well over a century and a half, reviewed now-public body-worn camera footage of the incident at Mission Local's behest. Their assessments came prior to today's testimony from prosecution witness Roger Clark, a use-of-force expert. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.