Top SF official faces explosive claims involving drugs and sex with vulnerable woman
A San Francisco official who’s already in trouble for antisemitic online rantings and allegedly abusive relationships with women faces even more explosive allegations that he gave drugs to a vulnerable woman and had sex with her.William Monroe Palmer, the president of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board who has been celebrated for his jail reform activism, still remains in his position despite growing calls from city officials for him to be removed.In the latest incident, a young woman, 26, told the San Francisco Chronicle that she left her family’s home on June 30 with no money or cell hone after a dispute about her job at a strip club.The woman, who has a history of involuntary psychiatric holds, was set to return home after spending two nights with a friend when she came upon some strangers in a public plaza and decided to smoke fentanyl with them.That’s when Palmer allegedly spotted her, watching her from a red BMW convertible, the outlet reported.
Palmer called her over and managed to get her inside the car, she said.“He asked me if I wanted to do drugs with him like meth and fentanyl,” the woman claimed.The pair went to his apartment and over the following five days, she allegedly smoked drugs and had sex with him.At one point, she was told she had to be resuscitated from an overdose.
The drug use made her unsure in her decision-making, she said.“I felt hesitant, but I took my clothes off because he told me to take my clothes off,” she said.“I felt very messed up, I couldn’t tell if I wanted to have sex or not.”The woman never told Palmer “no,” she told to Chronicle, but said she was not sure if the sex was consensual.Meanwhile, her mother reported her missing on July 3, panicking about her daughter’s whereabouts.
Four days later, an unidentified man called the mother and said her daughter was at an art studio near Market Street.The mom called the police, who found both her daughter and Palmer together.Office...