SF official William Palmer faces new claims involving medicine and intercourse

A San Francisco official who’s already in bother for antisemitic on-line rantings and allegedly abusive relationships with ladies faces much more explosive allegations that he gave medicine to a weak lady and had intercourse along with her.

William Monroe Palmer, the president of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Division Oversight Board who has been celebrated for his jail reform activism, nonetheless stays in his place regardless of rising calls from metropolis officers for him to be eliminated.

Within the newest incident, a younger lady, 26, informed the San Francisco Chronicle that she left her household’s residence on June 30 with no cash or cell hone after a dispute about her job at a strip membership.

The lady, who has a historical past of involuntary psychiatric holds, was set to return residence after spending two nights with a good friend when she came across some strangers in a public plaza and determined to smoke fentanyl with them.

That’s when Palmer allegedly noticed her, watching her from a crimson BMW convertible, the outlet reported. Palmer known as her over and managed to get her contained in the automobile, she stated.

“He requested me if I needed to do medicine with him like meth and fentanyl,” the girl claimed.

The pair went to his house and over the next 5 days, she allegedly smoked medicine and had intercourse with him. At one level, she was informed she needed to be resuscitated from an overdose. The drug use made her uncertain in her decision-making, she stated.

“I felt hesitant, however I took my garments off as a result of he informed me to take my garments off,” she stated. “I felt very tousled, I couldn’t inform if I needed to have intercourse or not.”

The lady by no means informed Palmer “no,” she informed to Chronicle, however stated she was undecided if the intercourse was consensual.

In the meantime, her mom reported her lacking on July 3, panicking about her daughter’s whereabouts. 4 days later, an unidentified man known as the mom and stated her daughter was at an artwork studio close to Market Avenue.

The mother known as the police, who discovered each her daughter and Palmer collectively. Officers handcuffed Palmer and positioned the girl in a psychological well being maintain, however he was finally launched.

Palmer later tried to go to the girl at San Francisco Common Hospital utilizing his official place, however was turned away. He reportedly even emailed the district legal professional’s workplace that he was “deeply” involved about how police had ended his “trauma-informed intervention” within the lady’s life.

Based on Palmer, he stated he took care of the girl. He noticed her and bought her out of a scenario she didn’t belong in, he stated. He allegedly took her to acupuncture periods, and Palmer stated he gave her a drink that he claimed turned folks right into a “complete completely different individual.”

“I’m her life coach,” Palmer informed the Chronicle. “I talked to her and informed her the issues that she wanted to listen to to snap out of the life-style she was in and to get into the life that she needs to be in.”

He refused to substantiate whether or not he had intercourse or did medicine along with her.

The newest allegations add to what’s already a troubling string of accusations towards Palmer. The Submit reported that he freely ranted about Jews on social media whereas serving on a number of Metropolis Corridor boards. He has additionally been accused by 4 ladies of abuse, and he claimed homelessness to get out of 97 parking tickets with fines of $9,743.

Palmer was appointed to the Sheriff’s Oversight Board in 2021 as a part of a push to incorporate folks with “lived expertise” to form the jail system. He had served 31 years of a life sentence in jail for a criminal offense he dedicated as a youngster.

Now, some San Francisco figures need to reverse his appointment.

“It’s unacceptable that somebody who has engaged on this conduct for months, if not years, stays ready of public belief,” Mayor Daniel Lurie informed the Chronicle.

Town Board of Supervisors has the facility to take away him by way of a course of that requires a number of votes and a listening to. Supervisor Stephen Sherrill requested an investigation into whether or not Palmer dedicated misconduct and stated the removing course of should start quickly.

“This example is unacceptable. This particular person has repeatedly demonstrated that he’s unfit to serve on a Metropolis fee or in any management capability in any respect,” Sherrill wrote on X.

Nonetheless, he stated the town requires an “absurd” course of and he’s in conversations about transferring the investigation extra shortly. He informed The California Submit in an interview that the removing course of is hopefully “weeks away.” Sherrill known as consideration to a measure on the November poll that may allow faster removals with out trigger.

Palmer has ignored requires his resignation and stated he intends to serve till March 1, 2027, when his time period ends.

“Allegations don’t take away folks from the board,” Palmer stated. “So undergo the method and let the chips fall the place they might.”

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