San Francisco Police Scandal

Full-puckered pantaloons comprises the uniform of the day for the San Francisco Police Department following the release of an offensive videotape.

From SFGate.com:

About 20 San Francisco police officers will be suspended because of their alleged involvement in what the mayor and police chief describe as videos that mock minorities and treat women as sex objects, the officials said Wednesday night.

"This is a dark day -- an extremely dark day -- in the history of the San Francisco Police Department for me as a chief to have to stand here and share with you such egregious, shameful and despicable acts by members of the San Francisco Police Department,'' Chief Heather Fong said at a City Hall press conference.

An officer at the department's Bayview Station, who is among those ordered suspended, produced the videos over the past two years using other officers and acquaintances and intended them as morale boosters, he and his attorney said Wednesday night. The officer denied he had done anything wrong, and his attorney said the suspensions were a politically motivated attack on free speech.

Egregious, shameful, and despicable vidoetape which mocks minorities and treats women as sex objects? I thought that was the template for an award-winning Hollywood script. But this is San Francisco, where they ban guns, military recruiters, and, presumably before long, video cameras. The scandal has turned into a political hot potato.

Here's a link to the video of the press conference held Wednesday night by Mayor Gavin Newsom and Police Chief Heather Fong.