SF News How Activists Got That Mario Woods Sign Into The Hands Of Beyoncé's Dancers As you may have guessed, that group of Black Panther beret-clad backup dancers at the Super Bowl halftime show didn't plan to create their own viral video in support of justice for Mario
SF News In Black Panther Garb, Beyonce's Super Bowl Dancers Hold 'Justice For Mario Woods' Sign (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News Man Allegedly Stabbed By Mario Woods Speaks: 'Ms. Woods, My Heart Goes Out To You' The man who says he was stabbed by Mario Woods on December 2nd just hours before Woods' death in a hail of police gunfire tells ABC 7 he'd never seen his attacker before
SF News Police Officers Association Spreading Petition To Repeal 'Mario Woods Day' A petition created by an anonymous individual seeks to challenge the Board of Supervisors' recent decision to declare July 22 a day in honor of Mario Woods. The petition calls the Supervisors to
SF News DOJ Review Of SFPD Won't Examine Mario Woods Killing Specifically, Recommendations Not Enforceable #SF mayor Ed Lee on federal voluntary review of #SFPD pic.twitter.com/XeKvUOS6hT— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) February 1, 2016 News broke on Sunday that the Department of Justice would conduct "[a]
SF News Week Of Protests Begins Saturday With Mario Woods March On Super Bowl City It is going to be a busy week. Starting tomorrow (Saturday), a slew of protests are planned for the week leading up to Super Bowl 50. And while some of them — like tomorrow's
SF News Nevius: Protesters Need To Stay On Message And Stop Blocking Traffic Black.Seed demonstrators have been arrested on the Bay Bridge. #96Hours #Oakland #ReclaimMLK #shutitdown pic.twitter.com/uIwCACqJBl— shanelle (@TheShanelleM) January 19, 2016 The inevitable reaction to the MLK weekend protests from Chronicle
SF News Early Morning Protests Wake Up Mayor Lee And Chief Suhr #96Hours to Reclaim King's #Radical #Legacy #APTP #Last3Pecent #ReclaimSF #BlackBrownUnity Good Morning, #GregSuhr! pic.twitter.com/B95YfuCqGP— Smedley Butler (@Smedley_Butler) January 17, 2016 A pair of dramatic protest events occurred in the
SF News Justice For Mario Woods Coalition To 'Crash' Ed Lee Inauguration The second — or, including his interim term, the third, but who's counting — inauguration of Mayor Ed Lee at City Hall tomorrow may also usher in a new era of protest in San Francisco.
SF News SFPD Canceled Forum On Black Community Relations Due To Planned Protest I guess they found out we were coming and they're scared! #justice4mariowoods #BlackLivesMatter #firechiefsuhr pic.twitter.com/yEIsqiKdKO— Justice4MarioWoods (@Justice4MWNow) December 30, 2015 In an apparent bid to forestall engaging with a planned
SF News Mario Woods Mourned At Funeral, Protest Planned For DA's Office Today Mario Woods was mourned by family and friends in a closed coffin service yesterday at the Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church, just across the street from where he was shot and killed by five
SF News Fresno Police Using Software Apparently To Track #BlackLivesMatter Protesters The Fresno Police Department has over the course of the last two years used social media surveillance systems to identify potential "threats" in the community it polices — including a product called MediaSonar which
SF News Two SFPD Officers Who Shot Mario Woods Previously Faced Excessive-Force Lawsuits Announcing that he would file a civil rights lawsuit against the SFPD, last week attorney John Burris released an enhanced new video showing the police shooting of 26-year old Mario Woods, a black
SF News Protest, Vigil Tonight At Site Where SFPD Killed Mario Woods Disturbed and distraught following the killing yesterday of 26-year-old Mario Woods, a limping and visibly unwell black San Francisco man with a kitchen knife whom SFPD encircled and shot to death in front
SF News Racist Demagogue Cites Non-Existent SF Crime Stats Actually Provided By Neo-Nazi As Fast Company is not the first to observe, Donald Trump is a fascist. No new evidence need be exhibited, but here's some anyway. "@SeanSean252: @WayneDupreeShow @Rockprincess818 @CheriJacobus pic.twitter.com/5GUwhhtvyN"— Donald
SF News Berkeley High School Student Confesses To Leaving Racist Threat On Library Computer Yesterday was marked by protest and student walk-outs at Berkeley High School in response to racist threats invoking the KKK and lynching that were left to be seen on a library computer. “Fuck
SF News Berkeley High School Students Protest After Racist Threat Found On Library Computer BLACK LIVES MATTER 💯💯🅱 @berkeleyside BERKELEY HIGH TAKING A STAND pic.twitter.com/uZ1HlblfR3— DOOSKIWORLD❄️ (@tkeepittrill) November 5, 2015 Students at Berkeley High School today staged a walk-out and rally in protest of a
SF News Rush Limbaugh Tries To Use SF Arrest Statistics Of Black Women To Say Something Racist Are San Francisco cops just as racist as cops everywhere, or are black people just inherently criminals? That seems to be the question being posed by conservative radio blowhard Rush Limbaugh in a
SF News Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Issues Mea Culpa Following May Day Vandalism Spree Newly elected Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her police chief Sean Whent admitted in a press conference Saturday that they weren't exactly prepared for the level of destruction that was wrought around downtown
SF News [Updated] Oakland May Day Mayhem Leaves Many Smashed Storefronts, Smashed Cars May Day demonstrations for a variety of causes but most prominently centering on the police homicide of Freddie Gray carried well into the evening on Friday. As with previous days of uprising in
SF News [Updated] May Day Protest Grows In Oakland As Hundreds Converge On Downtown Crowd gathering at 40th & MLK, Oakland to protest gentrification by blocking tech busses during the morning commute. pic.twitter.com/LcEgKlye0z— The Outsider (@OutsiderEditors) May 1, 2015 In the wave of marches
SF News Oakland Braces For Major May Day Mayhem As we mentioned the other day, some dueling protests are going to converge on Oakland this May Day, tomorrow, possibly reviving some Occupy-level chaos in the city's streets. As ABC 7 reports in
SF News Separate Tech Shuttle And Black Lives Matter Protests Planned For Oakland On May Day The Google bus blockades are not over! Separate protest events will be happening on Friday May 1 in two different parts of Oakland, in recognition of International Workers' Day, a.k.a. May
SF News Black Lives Matter Protesters Disrupt Traffic, Shout 'Shame On You' At Malia Cohen And London Breed; Campos Compares SF Inequality With Rwanda There were multiple coordinated protests Tuesday around the country in order to keep attention on the problem of racial injustice and police shootings, including a large one in New York City that resulted
SF News Local Black Lives Matter Activists Come Up With List Of Demands For SFPD After a Sunday community meeting at City College's Southeast Campus, the local Black Lives Matter movement appears to have officially come up with a list of concrete demands for the SFPD. The meeting,