SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Embattled San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr on Thursday resigned from his position hours after a deadly officer-involved shooting. It was the city’s second such shooting this year.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee told reporters he asked Suhr to resign. Lee is appointing Deputy Chief Toney Chaplin, a 26 year veteran of the force, as acting chief of police.

Here is some reaction from city leaders, the public, and the Twitterverse:

Board of Supervisors President London Breed issued the following statement on Thursday:

“Greg Suhr has served San Francisco valiantly for over three decades. I knew him when I was a child in the Western Addition, and he was a young narcotics officer working the beat. Greg was always respectful, always a servant of the community. I only hope his resignation today can help heal the wounds our community has suffered, and that all of us can dedicate ourselves to the police reforms Chief Suhr helped begin. May his departure be an opportunity at last for our City to come together, and for everyone, no matter their color or creed, to feel safe in our communities.”

Supervisor Mark Farrell also issued a statement on Suhr’s resignation.

“I respect Mayor Lee’s decision, and want to personally thank Chief Greg Suhr on behalf of all San Franciscans for his decades of service and progressive leadership at the San Francisco Police Department. Chief Suhr has served San Francisco for decades with distinction. Chief Greg Suhr was one of the most progressive Chief’s in the nation and in San Francisco history. I deeply respect Chief Suhr as a person, as a true San Franciscan, and as someone who woke up every day to keep the public safe, strengthen ties in the community with our residents, and to make San Francisco a better place for all communities.

“I look forward to working closely with interim Chief Toney Chaplin on strengthening the relationships needed with communities across San Francisco to implement the ongoing, proposed, and needed police reforms. Let’s come together as San Franciscans and move forward.”

Upon hearing of Chief Suhr’s resignation, supervisor Jane Kim stated, “I want to thank and acknowledge Chief Suhr for his 30 years of devoted service to the people of San Francisco. Now, we have to unite as a City more than ever to effect the deep changes that we know are necessary to heal and make the City safer and stronger.”

Supervisor Eric Mar said in a statement that he applauded Suhr’s resignation, but was troubled that the move had come after “yet another officer involved killing” of an African-American woman in San Francisco.

“This opens the door for the Police Commission to conduct a national search to select a chief that can challenge the culture of bigotry and racism in the department and rebuild trust with low income communities,” Mar said.

Supervisor Malia Cohen issued this statement:

“I fully support the Mayor’s decision to request Chief Greg Suhr’s resignation. I hope this moment allows our City to come together, heal and recover to feel safe in our community.

I thank Chief Suhr for his years of dedicated service to the City of San Francisco. I look forward to working with the members of the San Francisco Police Department, community members and Acting Chief Toney Chaplin on the implementation of the much needed policy reforms of the San Francisco Police Department.”

The Racial Justice Committee also issued a statement on Chief Suhr’s resignation:

THE RACIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE recognizes the important symbolic step taking place today with Chief Suhr’s resignation. As public servants we know that these decisions are not lightly undertaken.

But as black and brown bodies of unarmed men and women lie in the streets of San Francisco, having been felled by way too many police bullets, we also know that this is only the first step toward building public trust in the City’s administration.

We renew our call, first made on May 3, for a change in police culture, from the top of the command staff to the cadet just making her way through the academy.

It is imperative that every single officer given a uniform, a badge and a gun receive regular and repeated training on how implicit racial bias affects their perception of danger and of who is walking down the street in a suspicious manner.

The Racial Justice Committee renews its call to implement the Ten Point Plan for Police Department Reform, which includes the need for accurate data collection on detentions, traffic stops and so-called consent searches.

People of color across this country are throwing off the yoke of race hatred and the police occupation in their communities, and we demand to be treated as human beings.

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi issued this statement:

Martin Halloran, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, has issued the following statement regarding the resignation of Suhr:

Chief Greg Suhr has served this City and its residents faithfully for over 35 years. It is a great disappointment that he is departing the police force after having given so much of himself during a very difficult period. His tenure as Chief of Police will go down as one of the most successful in the history of San Francisco Police Department. His strong leadership, his innovative programs, and his hands-on approach have set a standard in the department that will be difficult to repeat. The youth programs established by Chief Suhr along with the outreach he initiated in underprivileged neighborhoods, such as the Bayview, have been praised by faith leaders and the community in general.

Having worked with or for Chief Suhr when he was a Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, and command staff member I can personally vouch for his integrity, his morals, and his deep commitment to the mission of public safety. His retirement under pressure is an extreme loss to the department and the city. Chief Suhr, at the core, was and always will be a cop’s cop and dedicated to the men and women who don the uniform every day to serve and protect.

The POA looks forward to working with Acting Chief Toney Chaplin to continue Chief Suhr’s established programs and move the department forward. Acting Chief Chaplin is an experienced veteran of the SFPD and is more than capable of leading this fine department during this transition.

The POA offers its thanks and appreciation to Chief Greg Suhr for his honorable service as a native San Franciscan and a resident of this city. We wish him well in his retirement. He deserves it.

Here is Mayor Ed Lee’s statement:MORE FROM LEE:

“Today I have arrived at a different conclusion about how best to move forward.”

“This has never been about personality or politics, it’s been about performance,” Lee said.

Work on reforms to the department following the shootings “were not fast enough, not for me and not for Greg,” Lee said.

The mayor said Suhr, who took over as chief in 2011 and has been with the Police Department for 33 years, is “a true public servant and he’ll always have respect from me.”

He said Chaplin, the new interim chief, has served in the department for 26 years and has an “established record of commitment to the city’s diverse communities.”REACTION FROM PROTESTERS

Roughly 50 to 100 people gathered in front of City Hall on Thursday evening. The gathering was initially planned as a protest, but it turned into a celebration of Suhr’s resignation among activists.

“It’s very exciting because we’ve been working two years on this, so this is party time right now,” said Oscar Salinas of Justice for Alex Nieto. “But the work has just begun.”

Phelicia Jones of the Justice for Mario Woods coalition said, “I am elated that he finally decided to resign. It’s a small victory, but a victory all the same. But we still have a lot of work to do. We have to change a culture.”

Jones was not optimistic about the appointment of Interim Chief Chaplin.

“An african American chief won’t help because the culture of the department is rooted in bias and racism,” Jones said.

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