Flashback 2012. CBS News reports:
Officials voted Tuesday to keep San Francisco's sheriff in office, nearly seven months after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor false imprisonment charge stemming from a New Year's Eve dispute with his actress wife.The great moments of the "sanctuary city". Just a reminder, San Francisco politicians generally think only police should own guns!
Four of the 11-member Board of Supervisors voted against removing Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. A minimum of nine votes were needed to oust him.
Mirkarimi was elected last fall and was mired in controversy before his swearing-in ceremony.
In March, Mayor Ed Lee suspended him without pay after the sheriff pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment related to the dispute with his wife, Venezuelan actress Eliana Lopez, who suffered a bruised bicep. Lee replaced Mirkarimi with interim sheriff Vicki Hennessy.
Mirkarimi was sentenced to three years of probation and fined. He is undergoing court-ordered counseling and parenting classes.
Lee then took the unprecedented step of trying to permanently remove Mirkarimi as sheriff. Lee testified before the city's Ethics Commission in June that he would find it "extremely difficult" to work with Mirkarimi again.
