SAN FRANCISCO — A deputy public defender who was arrested in a widely seen video filed a complaint against the San Francisco Police Department on Thursday.
Jami Tillotson was handcuffed, allegedly for resisting arrest, on Jan. 27 when she tried to intervene as a police sergeant detained and took photos of her client and another man in a courthouse corridor. The charge against Tillotson has since been dropped, and Police Chief Greg Suhr publicly apologized during a meeting of the city’s Police Commission on Wednesday. But the chief still defended Sgt. Brian Stansbury’s actions.
Tillotson maintains that police were wrong to try to separate her from her client, an African-American man, as he was questioned and photographed by police.
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A new video, released Thursday by the Public Defender’s Office but also recorded the day of the arrest, shows an officer walking the handcuffed lawyer down a staircase and toward a police department office inside the Hall of Justice. At the end of the clip, the officer tells the man recording the footage that he must turn off his camera because they’re in a “secure zone.”
Jami Tillotson complaint against SFPD
