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Once again, this is terrific reporting, Lou! The entire mess created by Boudin’s arrogance is truly shocking. But not particularly surprising since he’s so hell-bent on going after police enforcement officers. Like father, like son, I guess.

It was an outrage when Boudin filed manslaughter charges against Officer Samayoa. And it’s sad it took current Da Jenkins so long to drop the falsely dreamed up charges against Samayoa.

I hope both Mr. Pailet and Ms. Hayashi win their respective civil suits against Boudin over wrongful termination and meddling in Hayashi’s professional duties to her chosen profession, respectively. Since Boudin is a licensed lawyer, he should face being disbarred from practicing law in California and denied eligibility for running for any elected office in the future that requires holding a law license as a condition of private- or public-sector employment, or as an elected government official.

Several San Francisco City employees who sued for wrongful termination for having been whistleblowers — notably Dr. Derek Kerr (who was fired by LHH’s then CEO Mivic Hirose) and Joanne Hoepper (who was fired by then City Attorney Dennis Herrera) — went on to receive large wrongful termination settlement agreements that required approval by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors.

It shocks me some lefty San Franciscans continue supporting Boudin, who appears to have potentially engaged in what should be criminal (not civil) wrongful termination, which is purportedly illegal but hasn’t stopped hundreds of San Francisco employees from being wrongfully terminated, while their managers continue reaping fat City paychecks for years afterwards. My own view is that senior City managers who are found to have engaged in wrongful termination of their subordinates should be fired themselves before they cost the City additional costly wrongful termination settlements!

Keep us posted Lou, as you learn the outcome of Pailet’s and Hayashi’s civil lawsuits. You’re doing all San Franciscans a great public service, Lou, with your terrific investigative journalism.

I find it disturbing that the San Francisco Standard continues to carry Jonah Lamb’s clearly biased reporting, since Lamb was formerly employed in the Public Defender’s Office, which seems to have an axe to grind with SFPD. Boudin clearly fueled that axe against SFPD. Like father, like son.

Someone — Pailet? Hayashi? Jenkins? — should file a formal complaint against Boudin with the California State Bar Association over obstruction and withholding of exculpatory evidence in Samayoa’s case.

My hope is that Boudin, Jonah Lamb, Jenkins and others are closely reading your articles. Keep up your great investigative reporting, Lou.

— Patrick Monette-Shaw

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Patrick Monette-Shaw - Thank you as well for supporting Lou Barberini's efforts to expose corruption, fraud, mismanagement, and ineptitude in San Francisco government. In my opinion far too many readers and commentators are too polite and respectful of elected officials and City employees who don't deserve it.

None of us wants to wrongly accuse any City official or employee of anything, nor make charges we can't prove, but where the facts can be discovered, nothing ever seems to shock San Francisco voters! If this forum reached 900,000, maybe there would be many more expressing

such shock.

Polite discussions with our Supervisors will not cut it. None of these abuse is new, just probably

worse and newer lows for the abuses of public trust.

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Thank you SO much for your excellent investigative work, Lou! Never doubt that it is having an impact on helping clean-up the cesspool lurking under SF's criminal-justice system.

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Thank goodness for righteous, hard working people like Lou B. who bring these matters to our attention. 🙏 I fully appreciate and respect police officers ... they have one of the most difficult jobs around and deserve our support. Look where Gascon ended up and who got him elected [Soros]. If we look the other way, we will have total anarchy. There are fewer recruits in the SFPD and we need to talk to our supervisors [as I have] to increase their funding and let them do their jobs. 👍 HM

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Great truthful investigative reporting Lou. You should be on the I Team!

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Thanks for writing. Funny, people wonder why nobody wants to be a police officer in San Francisco.

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Lou - Please forgive me if this sounds stupid, but are you submitting this story to AP, or specific news outlets as an independent writer? It's seems like you've got the raw meat and background to back up your credibility.

On the other side of the coin, unlike Robert H and Herb Meiberger who's comments I appreciate - I don't agree that talking with the current leadership will help, because it is crystal clear they are all locked into their political religious beliefs that got us to this sad state of San Francisco in the first place.

San Francisco has no opposition political party.

San Francisco has an Ethics Commission with no teeth, and questionable ethics.

San Francisco has a Police Commission that is useless, just another political tool.

The Mayor and SFBOS reflect the voter's wishes, so we are getting what the majority says they want.

If the City Treasurer audits, why is not corruption found?

If the City Attorney investigates, why is little to no corruption ever found?

SFPOA has strengths and weaknesses of its own, and seems unwilling to address those weaknesses.

However many officers don't deserve to serve in that uniform, SFPOA should be at the forefront of

removing them, not protecting them, as it makes the rest of the department look bad.

There is just no consensus in San Francisco for how a City ought to be run, and how to deal with what appears to be systemic corruption so deep and wide that the FBI has not succeeded in uncovering it all. God save us!

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