SFPD Sanctioned For Withholding Evidence In Dacari Spiers SFPD Beating Case

San Francisco CA

03 March, 2022

5:57 PM

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By Annika Hom, Mission Local March 2, 2022 A judge today imposed sanctions on the city after the San Francisco Police Department did not disclose three interviews with officers the day after the October 2019 beating of civilian Dacari Spiers — including an interview with Officer Terrance Stangel, who is currently being criminally charged for that beating. U.S. District Court Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley today ruled that the city and the police withheld evidence in a manner "tantamount to bad faith." She ordered that the city must pay $2,300 in attorney fees to Spiers's lawyers, Curtis Briggs and Jamir Davis, who discovered the withheld interviews months after Spiers filed a civil suit against the city. 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.