I'm asking you, who are you? It's the law for order. I'm asking you. >> I'm a person that be around this area. Do you have ID on you? Sometimes Are you just going to be difficult or can we just get through this easily? It was no problem. Okay, cool. We're going to go way north. And then dump him and then we're going to go back to him. All right. Wherever you think is appropriate, I'll follow. Suzanne Mann and another officer try to handcuff Coleman so they can search him, but they can't until a third officer arrives. Just put your hands behind your back, dude. Can I sit on the ground? No, sir. No. What What are you doing now? What are y'all doing? What are y'all doing? A call comes in about a disturbance at a strip mall in San Leandro, California. Officers arrive and make contact with a man later identified as Shaquille Coleman. But within minutes, officers realize something important. There's no evidence of a crime. No charges. No clear reason to arrest him. Stop kicking. Stop playing with ME, BRO. STOP KICKING. BRO, STOP. GET IN THE CAR. WHY WOULD YOU PULL MY HAIR? COLEMAN FINALLY COMPLIED after Navarro pulled out his taser. You can see the green dot on Coleman's chest. Well, shoot. I don't actually he's They're saying he didn't do anything. By this point, officers already knew he hadn't committed a crime. They're saying he didn't do anything. No, he's just going to come back and be a problem, right? Lieutenant I will get him out of here and there's no BART station. It's going to take him a while to get back. We're going to ride up north and then you can walk off and then go figure your life out. All right, bud. North we go. All right, sir. You can grab your stuff and take off, man. Let's slow this down for a second. Because by this point, they already knew he did nothing wrong. If there's no crime, there's no detention. If there's no detention, there's no handcuffs. And if there's no custody, there's definitely no drop-off. They didn't have probable cause. They didn't have charges. They didn't have a plan. So, they made one up. You're being difficult. You're being difficult. San Leandro police handcuffed this homeless man at a strip mall, got into a violent struggle, and then dumped him, in their words, 7 miles away in Oakland. Officers did that even though they concluded the man had committed no crime. An internal affairs sergeant has filed a nine-page complaint with the city on this and other issues. And believe it or not, some people say this was just officers trying to solve a problem. They didn't arrest him. They didn't charge him. They just moved him somewhere else. But here's the problem. We didn't arrest him isn't a defense. It's the issue. Internal affairs didn't even catch this right away. They found it later reviewing old footage. At San Leandro Police Internal Affairs, Sergeant Mike Olivera was going through old body camera video when he came upon this violent incident from December 2024. Any use of force is supposed to be thoroughly documented by the arresting officer. This one was not. And according to a police attorney, if you use force, if you use handcuffs, you're supposed to document it. They used the authority of an arrest without the accountability of one. When you apply force to people, you handcuff them and that happens, you have to make sure you're making a record of it and the best record you can make is you take them into custody, you tell them they're under arrest, you write a report, you let the DA sort it out. It all started with San Leandro safety ambassadors. They, on the left, tried to make 33-year-old Shaquille Coleman leave a shopping area. A clerk at the natural food store pushed an alarm button because she thought Coleman and the ambassadors were about to fight. Two San Leandro police officers arrived. >> I'm asking you, who are you? It's the law for order. I'm asking you. Do you have ID on you? Sometimes Are you just going to be difficult or can we just get through this easily? It was no problem. >> Okay, cool. Suzanne Mann and another officer try to handcuff Coleman so they can search him, but they can't until a third officer arrives. Just put your hands behind your back, dude. None of the officers told Coleman he had committed a crime. He did have a receiving stolen property conviction in his past and he bolted when they tried to put him in the police car. Can I sit on the ground? No, sir. No. What What are you doing now? What are y'all doing? What are y'all doing? A police supervisor, Lieutenant Antoinette Turner, arrived in time to see the interaction turn violent. Stop kicking. Stop playing with me, bro. Stop kicking. BRO, STOP. GET IN THE CAR. WHY WOULD YOU PULL MY HAIR? Officer Navarro ripped out Coleman's braids trying to pull him into the car. Why would you DO THAT TO MY HAIR, BRO? Coleman finally complied after Navarro pulled out his taser. You can see the green dot on Coleman's chest. The body cam continued to record while Officer Mann tried to figure out what to do next. She considers what San Leandro police call a green sheet, a 5150 or psychiatric hold. She even starts filling out the paperwork before realizing she doesn't have a case. Well, shoot. I don't actually he's They're saying he didn't do anything. Mann decides she doesn't have evidence that Coleman was a danger to himself or others. So, she comes up with another plan. We're going to go way north. And then dump him and then we're going to go back to him. All right. Wherever you think is appropriate, I'll follow. Mann tells Officer Navarro and her supervisor, Lieutenant Turner, that she wants to dump Coleman in Oakland, but not near any BART station. Cuz then he just come back or he can get on that and go. No, he's just going to come back and be a problem, right? Lieutenant I will get him out of here and there's no BART station. It's going to take him a while to get back. Officer Mann gave Shaquille Coleman a choice. Santa Rita County Jail or ride north to Oakland. We're going to ride up north and then you can walk off and then go figure your life out. All right, bud. North we go. They take surface streets to 580 north, past the San Leandro city limit, past the Oakland Zoo, past Mills College. They take the MacArthur Boulevard exit to a gas station just off the highway. 7 miles from where they picked up Shaquille Coleman. I think you said he wanted his hair. Hold on. Officer Navarro retrieves Coleman's braids. Officer Mann removes her pink handcuffs. All right, sir. You can grab your stuff and take off, man. As Shaquille Coleman gathers his belongings, her partner motions for Mann to get back in the police car. Even a former police commander called this disturbing. But his biggest concern wasn't just the officers. It was the supervisor who watched it happen and didn't stop it. I find this incident really disturbing. Uh to the point where I almost didn't want to weigh in on it because it's so disturbing. Former SFPD commander and police practices expert Rich Correa is critical of Officer Mann's decisions saying they could have violated Coleman's civil rights, but he's mostly critical of Lieutenant Turner, the supervisor who told Mann I want you to do whatever you want. "I'll let you do whatever you want," she said. You can't, in the 21st century, go to a scene as a boss and not do anything. If there's some support, some action you need to take, some advice, some guidance, you're not there as a passive observer. You're there to add value. Antoinette Turner left the San Leandro Police Department this past December. I reached her by phone at BART Police where she is now deputy chief in charge of the progressive policing and community engagement bureau. Turner would not answer any of my questions about her role in the incident. A retired superior court judge also reviewed this case. She says he should never have been handcuffed and in her view, these officers should be fired. That was very, very disturbing to me to watch. What has happened to people that you can be this callous and treat someone that way. Retired superior court judge Brenda Harbin-Forte investigates civil rights violations for the NAACP. She tells me that Shaquille Coleman should not have even been handcuffed during the December 2024 incident. San Leandro officers admitted he had committed no crimes, but they forced him into the patrol car pulling out his braids and drove him 7 miles into Oakland dumping him, in their words. They should not be hired by any other police agency anywhere. There needs to have been something done. And something something that sends a strong message. You're saying that these officers, those who were involved, ought to be fired. In my view, yes. Absolutely. City officials say the case has been investigated and that corrective action has already been taken. But civil rights groups are demanding more transparency. Some are calling it outrageous, even a crime against humanity. And now, there are discussions about a possible investigation and a potential lawsuit. Through a spokesperson, Chief Angela Averett declined to be interviewed. So, I met her one day after work. Your officers dumped that man up in North Oakland. Is that the way you do business here? Chief, you have to answer to the public. You realize that, right? To follow up, I sent a detailed list of questions to the city and received a response that said, "After Sergeant Olivera's complaint last month, Chief Averett launched an independent third-party investigation that found certain personnel violated department policies and that they face corrective action." That's news to Sergeant Olivera. It's been 1 year since he first complained about this incident, his lawyer says Olivera is facing repercussions. He feels like the result has been that he's been shunned, he's been discriminated against, he's been retaliated against, and the treatment he's received within this administration. Police Chief Angela Averitt and Mayor Quan Gonzales today again declined my request for an interview, but Gonzales put out a recorded statement repeating that the city investigated and that the officers faced corrective action. In other words, their actions didn't meet the standards of conduct and professionalism that the city expects of all employees. The NAACP and other groups want to know the details. They want more transparency about how the city is handling the controversial case. That's the message from a news conference held by the Anti-Police Terror Project. And I personally I'm tired of responding to this incidents. When are we going to admit that policing as we do it does not keep people safe, that it in fact makes people, usually our most vulnerable people, less safe? Reecall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price also spoke. She's running for the office again. And the fact that they felt like they could take this man, Mr. Coleman, and treat him like trash, and dump him, dump him, in Oakland is is a crime against humanity, and it's outrageous behavior. They said he did nothing wrong. And then they treated him like he did. They used force. They took control, and they moved him out of the city. Not because they could prove anything, but because they didn't know what else to do. And while it was happening, someone in charge was standing right there. The city says it's been handled. But if this is handled, what does unhandled look like? Thin blue lies, baby.