Last Monday, for seven hours, the Rules Committee of the Board of Supervisors met to grill two of Mayor London Breed’s nominees for the city’s Police Commission, Nancy Tung and Geoffrey Gordon-Creed. The commission acts as an oversight body for the police department. Lydia Chávez, executive editor of Mission Local, covered the meeting and noted […]
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Black Lives Matter Marchers Block Traffic in Golden Gate Bridge Protest
Thousands of Black Lives Matter marchers filled the sidewalks of Golden Gate Bridge on June 6 to protest racism and police brutality. Protesters eventually spilled out into traffic, blocking the southbound lanes and marching through the MacArthur tunnel on their way to City Hall.
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As Thousands Protest Police Killings, Signs of a Turning Point
An estimated 10,000 people packed the streets around Mission High School on Wednesday, then marched around the city to call for justice for George Floyd, killed on May 25 by Minneapolis police officers, and other black people and other people of color disproportionately killed by police.
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Voices from the March: ‘If You’re Black, You’re at Risk’
Rubin Perkins, a 21-year-old black man, joined a crowd of thousands at Mission High School on Wednesday with a sign proclaiming his demands. “I want to live beyond 25. I want to raise a family, and I want to live,” he said, echoing his hand-lettered cardboard sign. “I don’t feel like that’s asking too much.” […]
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Protesters Gather to Decry Slaying of S.F. Man by Vallejo Police
Demonstrators began gathering before 3 p.m. Friday near Mission and 24th streets to protest the police slaying of San Francisco resident Sean Monterrosa. Vallejo police shot and killed the 22-year-old man Tuesday morning while he knelt on the ground with his hands raised in the air.
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Protesters Say Change Is Possible — if Political Momentum Lasts
“Civic” interviewed marchers in San Francisco to find out why they were there, and how this watershed moment might push society to change for the better.
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Oakland Lifts City Curfew After Thousands Defied It Wednesday
Oakland’s City Council ended the city’s contentious curfew order Thursday afternoon, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced in a tweet. “Effective immediately, Oakland is lifting the curfew. We will continue to facilitate safe spaces for our residents to demonstrate and express themselves peacefully and passionately,” Schaaf wrote. The decision came hours after the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office rescinded its curfew order following days of demonstrations lasting well past the curfew.
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Inside the S.F. Police Brutality Protests
Public Press reporters were in the thick of Sunday’s march over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Police Chief Urges Continued S.F. Curfew Until Looting, Violence End
San Francisco remains under an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew in the wake of a nationwide civil uprising over the death of George Floyd, an African-American man killed at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis. During a Monday morning press conference, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said he is cautioning Mayor London Breed not to end the curfew too soon.
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Testing in Mission Shows Virus Hits Workers, Latinos at High Levels
A Mission District coronavirus testing initiative has shown stark disparities in who has been getting sick — 95% of those who tested positive in this initiative identified as Hispanic or Latinx. Most earned less than $50,000 a year. But evidence of this disparity had been mounting even prior to the testing, when doctors in San Francisco hospitals saw that the majority of the coronavirus patients who needed to be hospitalized were also Latino.