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anybody not okay, the mayor will have a statement and we'll take some place. All right, what I'd like to do if I can is just outline what the situation is to date. The situation is now secured throughout the city as well as in Civic center Plaza.

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I think the press that was here saw what happened. There was no excuse for it. City hall had windows broken, basement, 1st floor door's broken, approximately 12 Police cars were burned at least one police motorcycle and several civilian vehicles. The fire chief estimates that damage at

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approximately $200,000 when there was enough manpower to move the crowd, a wedge was moved throughout the crowd and the crowd was dispersed. The initial Fire Department trucks coming onto the scene, we're assaulted and had to turn back. We have made a request for mutual aid and

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we'll have approximately 100 mutual aid Police from marin santa clara and Oakland here shortly. Additionally, I've been in contact with the Governor's office. I think it's important for everyone in this city to know that we're not going to continue to tolerate this. The police exercised considerable

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restraint and tomorrow I hope for all of us will be a different day. There will be a major police presence throughout san Francisco. Every off duty officer is being called back to report to their posts tomorrow and the mutual aid will continue for as long as

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is necessary. Um perhaps that might have helped. Secondly, there's criticism because the police did not act quickly enough to break this up. What's the reaction to those two things with respect to the system. There was a call put into the prosciutto for pa system. The best

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they had on hand was a large bullhorn with respect to the police. Um, my report, you speak up please. I think in the beginning, later when adequate manpower was available and the decision was made to move forward and threatened and they actually moved upon our firefighters,

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it was exercised tonight for people acting out tomorrow, either against personal property or others will not be there. We're going to have a safe and sane situation in the city. I'd like to call upon everybody to to rethink tonight and I don't think that this is

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the image of our city that we care about right now, mm hmm, Madam. Mayor train if I can. That was exerted, is there an inference there that there was too much restraint concerted and that there was, the windows at city hall were broken and fully. First

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I've heard of it. What I, what I did see was two hours of a constant pummeling of this building with rocks and anything that somebody could pick up to throw through a window and that was totally unnecessary. As soon as there was adequate mainland over the

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head will give special instructions. Absolutely. I didn't happen. And I'm not going to comment on. We have some reporters saying there was too much restraint on the part of other reporters have been treated more tolerantly than the city and county of SAn Francisco and I understand

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the concern about the verdict and as I indicated to you, I share that concern, heavy police presence of the community. Well, let me tell you something, I'm not going to take a chance. I'm not going to take a chance of the same situation erupting again tomorrow

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and if everything is quiet and then we can dispense with it. But I think if I took a chance and something happened, I would be very upset with myself for the crowd was kind of aimless for a couple of hours, there was really no direction before

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the violence started. Do you think a strong leaders and people that was my understanding was that see what happens? I hope that the leadership of the community will, what will speak out and well and what we want to do is get this city running on an

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even keel. Well, I think the answer was given to you Maury, A command decision was made that a initially there were not enough men to respond when all of the windows were broken out, there obviously was a need to protect the building from the damage that

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people could do in this building, their valuable records there. Uh a lot of city businesses as is at stake. The hope was that the tempers would, would wear out and the crowd would disperse itself as soon as there was enough manpower to mass and the squads

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had all been brought in from around the city. It was possible to make that flying wedge and disperse the crowd in the gay community for weeks. People have been saying that there'd be a riot if there is a manslaughter conviction with all the resources in your

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office, politically and in the Police department, why, how could it be that nobody ever heard of people have been talking about so long? Well, that there was going to be a riot. I know there were flyers that regardless of to be a riot have been talking

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about. I think he answered the question. The Police Department had no idea that if the double a manslaughter conviction was returned, the Police Department had no idea that many members of the gay community will be furious. Our best information was from the leaders of the gay

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community that they would be upset and indeed you use the word theory, but they were telling us that they would be peaceful and that they were marching vigil as they did when harvey milk was killed. This came as a surprise not only to us, but I'm

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sure to the leaders of the gay community public address systems intelligence in a couple of hours and that anger at first there was no p A system, there was no way that carol silver Britain could go out and talk to the crowd. It seems incredible in

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a town of this size. Resources available year in 2.5 hours, we could not get well. A request was placed by the Police Department to the Prosciutto for a public address system. Unfortunately, do you know about that lieutenant, where the requests were made for the public address

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system?