A San Francisco official celebrated for his jail reform activism is below hearth for allegedly abusive relationships with ladies — and freely ranted about Jews on social media whereas serving on a number of Metropolis Corridor boards, The California Submit can completely reveal.
William Monroe Palmer, president of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Division Oversight Board, shared a plethora of disturbing Fb and Instagram posts selling antisemitic conspiracy theories, fringe books about Jewish world management together with diatribes about ladies, Christians, and the advantages of polygamy.
In a single April 21 Fb, Palmer shared a video from a self-described “prophet” ZuhCar El Le Azar, who slams Christians for not doing “the analysis” about Jews.
Azar cites an obscure racist tome known as Chosen Individuals From the Caucasus — which blames Jews for the transatlantic slave commerce and argues that Jewish success is because of “lingering Neanderthal aggression” — and flashes an AI-generated Jewish caricature.
“Is it since you have been raised like that? After Trump and the Epstein information, genocide in Israel and the historic racist abuse you might be nonetheless voting as Demoncrats and Rethuglicans?” Palmer wrote whereas sharing the hateful publish.
On April 30, the self-described human rights advocate shared a Fb publish from the Israelite Faculty of Common Sensible Information, a Black supremacist sect affiliated with the Black Hebrew Israelite motion.
The Israelite Faculty of Common Sensible Information has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Legislation Heart for racist, antisemitic and misogynistic views, which declare that Jews have “stolen their id and ‘birthright.’”
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Within the video, a person sporting a loud T-shirt studying “Actual Jews, not the pretend ones” delivers an unhinged race-based interpretation of the Guide of Genesis.
In different posts, Palmer — who additionally advises on jail sentences for the San Francisco District Lawyer’s Sentencing Fee — recommended on Instagram that Kamala Harris would attempt to enhance the incomes of Jewish folks if elected president and promoted a conspiracy idea about “Zio Bolsheviks.”
In a video shared by Palmer, creator Erik Warsaw claimed “Zio Bolsheviks” in Russia had banned antisemitism to “protect their privilege and energy.”
“When are we going to acknowledge the plain?” Palmer wrote on Instagram in August 23, attaching a video of a person rambling that Ashkenazi Jews are “a conspiracy.”
“These posts are unambiguously antisemitic and the truth that he has shared so a lot of them reveals a transparent sample of settlement with the content material,” stated Jeremy Russell, spokesperson for the Jewish Group Relations Council of the Bay Space.
Palmer has been accused by 4 ladies of abuse and claimed homelessness to get out of 97 parking tickets with fines of $9,743, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Some members of the Board of Supervisors, which appointed Palmer to the Sheriff’s Oversight Board as a part of a prison justice reform push, have known as on Palmer to resign after allegations of violence towards ladies emerged.
“On prime of the opposite allegations, this exhibits an individual unfit to serve in any function on the Oversight Board, not to mention as president. We be part of the others in the neighborhood urging his elimination,” Russell added.
“Mr. Palmer’s expressed views and alleged prison conduct don’t characterize the views of the District Lawyer’s Workplace or the Sentencing Fee,” the San Francisco District Lawyer’s Workplace stated in an announcement.
“The views he has expressed are troubling and the alleged conduct is totally incompatible with expectations for Sentencing Fee members,” the workplace stated.
Palmer’s excessive social media takes didn’t cease with ladies.
Referring to himself as a “card carrying masculine alpha man,” he claimed in April 2023 that “nature chosen males to have a number of wives,” blasted interracial marriage and attacked feminism.
“To start with the Creator created a Helpmate, not a feminist that neglects the household to be a Boss Stylish, doing Slut Walks with an Solely Followers with pronouns,” he shared on Fb in August 2025.
In a telephone name, Palmer denied he’s antisemitic and claimed he’s courting a Jewish girl he was “supposed to satisfy up with tonight.”
“I’m an individual who seeks data,” he claimed.
Requested about sharing antisemitic conspiracy theories, he known as himself an “avid researcher of historical past.”
“I do know for a truth primarily based upon my analysis and going to completely different locations … that the folks within the Bible, the youngsters of Israel, they weren’t from Jap European counties,” Palmer alleged.
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 was praised within the media for supposedly turning his life round, utilizing his expertise to advocate for inmates via his nonprofit, “Life After Subsequent.”
Palmer, 55, had served 31 years of a life sentence in jail for a criminal offense he dedicated as a youngster.
The California Supreme Courtroom had dominated his sentencing as “extreme punishment,” however his run-ins with the prison justice system didn’t finish along with his launch in 2019.
Officers have pulled over Palmer at the very least thrice in latest months for visitors violations. In a single physique digicam video, Palmer complained about being arrested for refusing to offer his driver’s license, in response to the Chronicle.
“I’m the president of the Sheriff’s Division Oversight Board… You actually assume that is going to be swept below the rug?” Palmer was recorded saying.
Extra critical allegations have emerged after 4 ladies accused him of violence, together with rape, and one other girl put a restraining order on him.
In December 2024, a Sonoma County decide granted a restraining order that informed Palmer to not abuse or contact his ex-girlfriend and her household for a yr. Palmer was arrested once more in August 2025 on suspicion of home battery and false imprisonment, however the district lawyer stated there was inadequate proof.
In one other alleged incident in Portugal, a girl claimed Palmer turned violent after she refused to have intercourse with him. No prices have been filed.
Palmer denied the violence allegations and stated he deliberate to carry a group justice discussion board to inform his facet of the story.
He went on an unusually unusual clarification for his run-ins, blaming the police for concentrating on him and placing “psycho” ladies in his path.
“If you happen to inform some folks, ‘No, I’m not anymore,’ it’s like assault and battery,” Palmer stated. “I’m not mendacity. I’m prepared to do an undercover investigation to show that that is occurring day by day.”
His recounting of the alleged incidents claimed that he did no hurt, however that the ladies concerned falsely cried out that he damage them.
Previous supervisors had already known as on him to resign after the allegations surfaced, however he refused and even presided on the board from throughout the jail.
On his parking tickets, Palmer stated low-income folks shouldn’t should pay to park outdoors their condominium.
“I deserve the fitting to personal a automotive, and I imagine that what they’re doing is unfair,” Palmer informed The Chronicle. “I’m simply the one who has the heart to say, ‘No, I’m not doing that.’ In case your metropolis funds relies on tickets and impound, there’s an issue.”
The town ended up forgiving most of his tickets after he utilized for a waiver.
