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| Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson on the verge of being led away in handcuffs |
San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson, an 18-year-veteran of the public defender's office, was in court when she was notified that one of her clients was being interviewed and photographed by police in the hallway. She rushed out to intervene and notify her client they did not have to speak to police without an attorney present. That's when things got ugly:
The video shows Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson refusing to step aside as a man identified as San Francisco Police Inspector Brian Stansbury tries to take a cellphone picture of him in a hallway at the Hall of Justice on Tuesday. “I just want to take some pictures, ok? Then he will be free to go,” says Stansbury on the video. Tillotson refuses and Stansbury then tells her she can either step aside or be arrested for resisting arrest, according to the subtitles on the YouTube video.Deputy Public Defender Tillotson's client was at the Hall of Justice for an unrelated misdemeanor charge when Inspector Stansbury began questioning and photographing him. Inspector Stansbury was also there for another reason:
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