"Officers on Aug. 31, 2025, arrested two men - Carlos Espana-Quintanilla, 23, and his friend, a 22-year-old whose name the public defender's office withheld - during a family gathering at 1270 Quesada Ave. in Hunter's Point, according to the complaint. An unspecified number of officers arrived at the house after the department received a midnight call from a woman in a car a quarter mile away who contacted police after arguing with her boyfriend, who subsequently fled the car."
"The officers "slammed" another man into the cement and, at one point, pepper-sprayed a woman in a wheelchair when she tried to defend her brother, wrote Brian Cox, head of the public defender's integrity unit, in a letter to Paul Henderson, executive director of the Department of Police Accountability."
"Cox wrote that the officer's decision to stop this man was an act of racial profiling without reasonable suspicion. "The only overlapping characteristic between [that man] and the boyfriend is that they are both Black men and happen to be in the same neighborhood.""
San Francisco police officers allegedly engaged in excessive force during an August 31, 2025 arrest at a family gathering in Hunter's Point. Officers responded to a call about a missing boyfriend and allegedly stopped a 22-year-old man based on racial profiling, sharing only the characteristic of being Black with the actual suspect. Multiple officers then allegedly punched a 23-year-old in his bedroom and slammed the other man into cement. Officers pepper-sprayed a woman in a wheelchair who attempted to defend her brother. The public defender's office filed a complaint with the Department of Police Accountability alleging racial motivation. Charges against both men were subsequently dismissed, and the police department declined to comment on the open complaint.
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