SF Politics Breed Announces Plan to Remove Police From All Non-Criminal Calls in San Francisco Neighbor disputes, mental health crises, and complaints about the homeless will no longer be part of the purview of the San Francisco Police Department under a new four-point plan unveiled by the mayor on Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bernal Rock's 'Black Lives Matter' Message Painted Over By Public Works A South Bay man has been charged with COVID-related stock manipulation, SF officials just announced a financial relief package for fishermen impacted by the Pier 45 fire, and artists are repainting 'Black Lives Matter' on Bernal Hill Rock for the sixth time after DPW effed up.
SF News Healdsburg Mayor Apologizes for 'Blind Spots' About Racism As Petition Calls For Her Resignation Even the small, affluent, northern Sonoma County town of Healdsburg is not immune to the civil unrest and tough conversations about systemic racism happening around the country.
Arts & Entertainment Black Bird-Watcher Who Spoke Out About SF Racism a Decade Ago Celebrates Black Birders Week You may have missed it in the crush of news about protests across the country and the globe last week, but it was also #BlackBirdersWeek, in which black birders and naturalists took to social media to share the photographs of their hobby.
SF News Video: SF Couple Gets Engaged During Black Lives Matter Protest On Golden Gate Bridge A San Francisco couple took a dramatic — and windy — moment on the Golden Gate Bridge, during which protesters had halted traffic in both directions on Saturday afternoon, to get engaged in front of the assembled crowd.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Artists Follow D.C. In Painting 'Black Lives Matter' on City Street Three blocks of 15th Street in downtown Oakland are now painted in big, bold yellow letters "#BlackLivesMatter," much like a street near the White House in Washington, D.C. as of last week.
SF News Photos From Wednesday's Peaceful Youth March in SF's Mission District A youth march in support of Black Lives Matter, organized by a small group of Mission District teens on Instagram, drew an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people on Wednesday.
SF News Mission District Protest Draws Thousands, Muni Rerouted A police brutality protest that began outside Mission High School on 18th Street drew possibly 10,000 people or more on Wednesday, most everyone masked but clearly not socially distant in any way.
SF Politics San Francisco Will Lift Its Curfew Thursday The unprecedented 8 p.m. curfew imposed by Mayor London Breed on Sunday will come to an end after four consecutive nights, lifting at 5 a.m. on Thursday, June 4.
SF News Thousands Gather in Peaceful Protest at SF's Ocean Beach A demonstration billed as a Sunset Solidarity March for Black Lives Matter took place Tuesday afternoon along the Great Highway by Ocean Beach, and images appeared to show at least 1,000 people in attendance.
SF News Health Experts, Governors Fear Mid-June Spike In COVID-19 Cases From Protests Four consecutive days of nationwide protests, with protesters numbering in the tens of thousands in some cities — some masked, some not — have health experts and state and city leaders worried about a spike in new COVID-19 cases in the next two weeks.
SF News 100 Arrested In Oakland Following Peaceful March; Empty Hilltop Mall Looted In Richmond Tear gas was deployed Monday against protesters in both Walnut Creek and Oakland, where around 100 people were arrested, 80 of them for violating the city's 8 p.m. curfew.
SF News Jamie Foxx Joins Faith Leaders and Mayor London Breed For 'Kneel-In' at City Hall Actor Jamie Foxx is in San Francisco today to join inter-faith leaders, Mayor London Breed, and Supervisor Shamann Walton for a kneel-in outside City Hall at 11 a.m. to protest police violence and systemic racism.
SF News 80 Arrested In San Francisco Sunday; Molotov Cocktails, Handgun Seized As San Francisco began imposing its first night of an 8 p.m. citywide curfew, SFPD officers made around 80 arrests, many of them for violating that curfew, but some for more destructive acts.
SF News Protest In Oakland Turns Violent, 22 Arrested, Looters Detained, Officers Injured, Federal Officer Killed The scenes of protest followed by some scenes of destruction and confrontations with law enforcement were echoed across the country Friday night. But scenes like this are fairly familiar in Oakland, and not all the vandalism and looting was necessarily done by "protesters," per se.
SF News Activists Block Highway 101 In San Jose To Protest George Floyd Killing Protesters broke off from a peaceful demonstration near San Jose City Hall Friday afternoon, and a large group marched onto the 101 freeway and halted traffic, holding signs that said "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe."
SF News Second Protest Planned Friday Evening In Oakland Over George Floyd Death Following a small, peaceful protest in downtown Oakland Thursday night, a second night of protest is taking shape that could be larger, following the chaotic scenes in Minneapolis last night — and following President Trump's outrageous call for the National Guard to shoot looters.
Business & Tech Twitter Doubles Down On Labeling Trump's Tweets After He Suggests Shooting Looters In Minnesota For the second time this week, Twitter has applied its content moderation policies to the president's tweets, this time putting a Trump tweet one click deep behind a warning about glorifying violence.
Arts & Entertainment Russians Apparently Also Used Pokemon Go To Create Division, Promote Black Lives Matter Well, this is insane. In addition to creating fake Facebook and Twitter accounts, creating events, and buying Facebook ads to sow division and influence the 2016 election, Russian agents apparently also created a
SF News Asian American Family Threatened For Putting Black Lives Matter Sign In Window One Asian American family in San Francisco has been the target of hate mail since putting up a Black Lives Matter sign in their window. KRON 4 reports that Debbie Lee has had
SF News Bodycam Footage Analysis Shows Cops Are Nicer To White People Bodycam footage from police officers is typically used only to determine innocence or guilt in high-profile use-of-force incidents. But a new Stanford study puts big-data analysis to bodycam footage, analyzing 981 routine Oakland
SF News Ugly Racial Profiling Incident Caught On Video At Mission Grocery Store Things are not off to the best start at the new Grocery Outlet Bargain Market location at South Van Ness Street and 23rd Street, the former DeLano’s Market that sat empty for
SF News SFPD Might Sue Pepsi Over That Kendall Jenner Ad By now you've probably cleansed your palate of the sour taste that you got from that vacuous, ill-advised Pepsi ad starring Kendall Jenner — but there's actually another, somewhat ironic aftertaste that could linger
SF News SF Supervisors' Resolution: Climate Change Is Real, LGBT Rights Can't Change, And Black Lives Matter In a symbolic but powerful resolution that might even make our neighbors in far-left Berkeley a bit envious, the Board of Supervisors took time on Tuesday to pass a resolution thoroughly affirming the
SF News 50 Fatal Shootings By CA Police Went Unreported To Department Of Justice In 2015 Police fatally shot six people in San Francisco last year, but you wouldn't know that from looking at Open Justice, a website created at the behest of California Attorney General Kamala Harris to
