Uptown Almanac reports on the photographer Travis Jensen’s allegations that a young man riding home to Valencia Gardens from Friday’s “Bat Kid” event was roughed up by undercover police. The young man, 21-year-old D’Paris Williams,
“was confronted by two undercover police officers in an unmarked vehicle at the Valencia Gardens Apartments in the City’s Mission District. Apparently, the officers said something to DJ about riding his bicycle on the sidewalk as he was pulling up to his home in the complex.”
We are following up with the story.
Updated (or different) information:
Tue. Nov. 19, 5pm
Emergency Action Justice for D’Paris Williams and ALL Victims of Police Brutality in Valencia Gardens!
Corner of Rosa Parks Lane and Valencia Sts. Between 14th and 15th Sts., San Francisco
Pamela..what cesspool did you crawl out of…it doesn’t matter who lives there an how long..dj..isn’t a jerk hes a good kid..it sound like you got a problums..sounds like your ..white trash…or trailer trash..witch is it!!!!! I hear people like you all the time..you all come a dime dozen….go back to the cesspool you swam out of…..
Darlene, leave the race and class crap out of it.
You just reduced yourself to Pamela’s low level.
I trust that the commenter from Uptown Almanac won’t mind me sharing this information:
“We’re organizing a rally for DJ and other victims tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:00p.m. in front of the Mission District Police Station at 17th and Valencia. Please come out and show your support.”
Most likely DJ was being a jerk, not listening to the police, & acting as if he owns the place. See people like him all the time; they’re a dime a dozen. Very interesting that he, his sister, & her baby are living in public housing. How many generations of his family live there? How many work? After all this is Valencia Gardens. Still a cesspool.
You post alot of shameful assumptions and ask elitist questions that have no relevance to the alleged police brutality that occurred. Police should have enough foresight to gauge when they should drop an issue. These ‘Violence Reduction’ cops should have dropped their determined pursuit of a bike violation instead of incite the violent aftermath that occurred. Pursuing a bike citation once someone steps in their home seems pretty extreme and unnecessary to me. I question how many bike riding violations have been given in SF. I know I’ve done it numerous times as I approach my front door in the Mission. This situation is just outright shameful and disturbing. …And if you have such a problem with residents or prerequisites with people living in Valencia Gardens, do something about it and contact Supervisor Campos.
Why do u care if he was in housing the kid was going college to get better education obiously. People like you that are “raise” not suffering feel like everything comes the easy way .he was going school to be different. You loose everything and you will remember me
For starters, do you know DJ? And he WOULD act as if it was his own place…. Because in fact, it was…this happened in the front steps of his own home. His sister opened the door for him to come in. And no, you’ve never seen people like US, and you probably never will. DJ is a wonderful person, good grades, even came over in the morning to make sure some of us went to school on time in the morning..caring individual who you think is below you. Sorry if we don’t like to be threatened in the comfort of our own home by an unmarked vehicle & “officers” in plain clothing.
And who are you and where you from to say some stupid shit like that idgaf where we come from ad where we live nooooone and I mean NOONE deserves to get beating you are one Ignorance person
Pamela, I am very saddened by your comment. I find it very disturbing that you believe that someone deserves to be brutally beaten, beaten until he was unconscious for MAYBE “being a jerk” and for living in public housing. We don’t even know what happened and I do not care if it does turn out that he made a rude comment to the police – I don’t think ANYONE should be beaten for speaking their mind. I don’t believe that our police force should flip out when someone comes at them with a rude comment. Shouldn’t our police force be able to deal with this in a different manner? If this were a white kid mouthing off to the police would he be brutally beaten? (Not that we even know that DJ did mouth off, for all we know he just kept riding his bike a few yards to his front door) Police brutality against people of color is a huge problem in this country – black bodies are beaten in situations that white bodies would never be beaten in. I find it frightening that there are people who think this kind of behavior from the folks that are there to “protect and serve” is acceptable. I do not believe people who behave like brutes should be allowed to wear a badge. This is another shameful day for our city.
That’s not wat happen Dj had headphones on where he did not hear the police pull up in back of him and point blank if he was being a jurk noooooone deserves to get beating by police to where their crying for help
pamela join us at the protest….come meet the people who love dj…don’t make..white trash comments if you don’t know what your talking about.
You DON’T know DJ so therefore you shouldn’t be talking, he is a very close friend of mine , he deff wasn’t being no jerk cause he is a nice kid he won’t go off on the police for no reason. DON’T ever speak upon anybody’s familty mostly to people you don’t know. Speak what you know not what you hear.
Yes, it’s just awful that ‘people like him’ don’t know their place in society.
WTF do you really know about the actual event?
Were you there?
Your mind is cesspool.
I read the story and am appalled that the discussion seems to have little relevance to the actual event. What I mean by this is that posters in the comments section talk more about whether or not a bicyclist should be riding on the sidewalk. The real story is police brutality. Why is the mainstream media not reporting on this incident? Thank you for bringing this to light Mission Local.