The San Francisco Police Department held a town hall meeting to share preliminary information about an incident in which two officers shot and gravely injured Jamaica Hampton. His confrontation with and subsequent attempt to escape two police officers on Dec. 7, ended with Hampton in life-threatening condition and an officer seriously injured. The events were captured in part on surveillance cameras and on an officer’s body camera, and played for the public at the town hall. Hampton’s friends and family praised his character, and community members voiced their outrage at the shooting.
“He pulled himself from a dark place and rebuilt his life and was thriving, and you tore him down. And I’m disgusted.”
— Eve Greenberg