San Francisco has agreed to pay $825,000 to Christiana Porter, a single mother who left a jaywalking stop with a concussion and a separated shoulder after an SFPD officer pushed her into a wall — but the check isn't cut yet: the Board of Supervisors' Government Oversight Committee must approve the payout on Sept. 3.

The settlement resolves a lawsuit Porter filed in March 2025, but it leaves two accountability questions the money doesn't answer — the district attorney filed no charges against Porter, and the officer who injured her, Josh McFall, is still employed by SFPD. For the taxpayers who fund these payouts, the $825,000 is the visible cost; the Sept. 3 committee vote is the first public checkpoint where supervisors can either quietly ratify the number or ask why the officer at the center of it is still on the street.

The payout to Porter is contained in an ordinance seeking to authorize the payment, and the Board's Government Oversight Committee is scheduled to hear it on Sept. 3, according to Mission Local, which first reported the settlement. Until the committee and then the full board vote, the money is authorized on paper only.

What the payout is buying peace over is not in dispute. Video of the 2024 incident obtained by Mission Local showed Porter crossing an empty street at a crosswalk before a police car pursued her — driving the wrong way down Geary Boulevard. Porter, wearing large headphones, does not appear to notice the car until it stops and Officer Josh McFall gets out to intercept her.

Under California law, a jaywalking stop is only warranted when a pedestrian is in immediate danger of a collision — the 2023 "Freedom to Walk Act" bars officers from stopping pedestrians for crossing outside a crosswalk unless there is an immediate hazard.

By Porter's account, McFall asked for her ID, and she reached into her purse to get it. He told her to take her hand out of the purse; moments later he pushed her against the wall hard enough to cause a concussion, a separated shoulder and lasting back pain. Porter, it turned out, was on an errand to print forms for a then-active domestic violence case.

The SF Standard, in its own coverage, framed the story the same way in a headline still circulating on its site this week: "SF set to pay $825K to domestic violence survivor slammed against wall for jaywalking." Porter, a single mother of six, told the Standard she would use the money to provide for her children.

SFPD accused Porter of resisting arrest. The district attorney's office declined to file any charges against her.

The settlement caps a case that began in March 2025, when Porter sued. At the time, she said that eight months after the encounter she was still afraid to leave the house alone.

The city's willingness to write a large check does not, by itself, resolve what happens to the officer. McFall remains employed by SFPD, according to his LinkedIn. The Dissent could not independently confirm the status of any internal discipline; the Department of Police Accountability and SFPD did not have public findings available in the record reviewed for this story.

That gap is the through-line for the readers who fund the settlement. San Francisco's settlements are paid out of public money, and a payout is a civil resolution, not a finding against any individual officer. The Sept. 3 committee hearing is the first public checkpoint — the venue where supervisors can either quietly ratify the number or ask why the officer at the center of an $825,000 payout is still on the street.