Black Residents Outraged Against Police Brutality

SAN FRANCISCO (NCM) - On Aug. 25, two White San Francisco police officers drove up Middlepoint and West Point Road in the neighborhood of Hunters Point between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Lee Collins, a 23-year-old resident of the area, who many may know as Baby Finsta, and was featured in Kevin Epps' award-winning independent film "Straight Outta Hunter's Point," was called out by the officers.

As they approached him, he put his hands up, and the officers commenced hitting him with their billy clubs, punching and kicking him until he was unconscious.

At the same time, they were uttering derogatory remarks to his relatives. The officers who made the initial stop called in for their backup to detain everybody in white t-shirts in the area.

When backup arrived, approximately 30 officers showed up, pointing guns at children, who were as young as 8 years old, as well as other residents who had witnessed the act of police brutality.

Fourteen-year-old Marcus Law, an honor roll student who has never been in trouble with the law, was approached and immediately hit with a police billy club, causing him to go to the hospital.

At least two other adults were brutalized in the incident, and a number of children and other spectators were traumatized by what they saw.

The police said that Collins started the trouble by fleeing and resisting arrest, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle.