DEMAND JUSTICE FOR SHEILA DETOY!

On May 13, 1998, my friend, Sheila Detoy was shot and killed by Officer Greg Breslin of the SFPD. She was only 17 years old when Officer Breslin's bullet tore through her neck, causing her to bleed out. It what was called "a stakeout gone awry." Was she armed? No! Did the SFPD even know who she was? No!   Undercover officers were trying to apprehend Ramondo Cox for failure to appear on a drug warrant. Cox climbed into the back passenger seat of the car in which Sheila Detoy was also a passenger. When the car attempted to leave Cox's residence, Officer Breslin, dressed in plainclothes, fired into the car without provocation.   Breslin claimed that he was in danger of being struck by the car. But, both witness testimony and forensic evidence clearly proved that he was NOT in any danger of being struck by the car. He claimed that the car was traveling at a speed between 25-30 MPH. Witnesses stated that the car was, in fact, traveling between 3-5MPH out of the horseshoe driveway. There weren't any tire tracks which would have corroborated Breslin's assertion that the car had been traveling at an excessive speed.  Lt. David Robinson of the SFPD, the investigating officer in my friend Sheila Detoy's case, immediately told the media, "She was a victim, but she was no innocent victim. She was trying to live the hip-hop lifestyle." It was clear from the beginning that Sheila's case was biased. Where were the officers while Lt. Robinson made an immediate claim that this shooting was justified? According to SFPD policy, the officers involved in a shooting are to be sequestered until they each have been questioned separately by the investigating officer in the case (Lt. David Robinson). But Breslin and the others present at the time of her killing went to the Police Officers Association headquarters to seek legal counsel before they were ever questioned. They weren't questioned until 7 hours after Officer Breslin had killed Sheila Detoy. The news soon spread all over the city. The media labeled Sheila Detoy as a "good girl gone bad" while family and friends were still in the process of finding out that she had been killed. The media wanted to find out what led her astray without ever questioning why Officer Breslin had fired in the first place. [more]