SF News Video: Antioch Police Now Have Excessive Force, Racial Profiling Scandal On their Hands Video of a Latino man who was not even suspected of a crime, yet received a thorough beatdown from Antioch police officers, is the latest dirty linen for a department already reeling from a racist text scandal and a federal investigation into their possible cocaine distribution.
SF News Video: Pacific Heights Man Engages In Racial Profiling, Questions Bike Messenger About Stolen Packages Another white person in Pacific Heights has been captured on video being an asshole to a person of color, this time questioning a man who was delivering Narcan to a nearby halfway house.
SF News Students and Teachers Protest at Castro Safeway After Fifth-Grader Gets Racially Profiled There was a kid-led march on Wednesday to protest the treatment of a San Francisco fifth-grader who was accused of stealing a sandwich at the Safeway on Market and Church streets.
SF News Three Black Men Say They Were Victims of Racial Profiling at Union Square Saks Store Three men who say they had come to shop Wednesday, as they often do, at the Saks Fifth Avenue store on Post Street in Union Square, say they were the victims of racial profiling and were detained for hours by San Francisco police after doing nothing wrong.
Business & Tech Facebook (Finally) Removes Racial Ad Targeting After four years of scandals over targeting users by race — including a white users only option — Facebook has very quietly removed the racial targeting option for advertisements.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Introduces 'CAREN Act' To Make Racially Biased Police Calls Illegal With more people frivolously calling the police in incidents involving minorities, SF Supervisor Shamann Walton has proposed an order that would outlaw “racially biased” police calls.
SFist Karen SF 'Ken' Filmed Blocking Latino Man From Entering His Own Apartment Complex Well, it looks like SF "Karen" Lisa Alexander — the skincare CEO filmed scrutinizing a local man for writing "Black Lives Matter" outside his home earlier this month — has a male counterpart: this "Ken" named William Beasley who blocked a Latino man from entering his apartment complex Tuesday.
SF Politics SFPD Says It Wants To Do Better Responding To Racially Biased, 'BBQ Becky'-Style Calls The SFPD brass, along with community members and policy makers, convened a meeting on Tuesday to come up with a policy statement concerning non-emergency police calls that could result in "bias by proxy."
SF News UC Berkeley Senior Alleges Racial Profiling, Illegal Detention At Hands Of Berkeley Police A University of California, Berkeley student is saying via Facebook post, that he suffered a 39-hour ordeal via the Berkeley Police Department and has yet to receive an apology. The Daily Californian reports
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 Nextdoor Hires Lobbyist To Disrupt Its Own Users' Racism San Francisco-based Nextdoor is a social media site that in many way serves as a 21st century neighborhood bulletin board — replacing the cork board at the church or local market with a digital
SF News Now You Can Flag Nextdoor Posts For Racial Profiling "Love thy neighbor" isn't typically the guiding principle on Nextdoor.com, the private, free social network for neighborhoods which launched in San Francisco in 2011. Since then it's raised, per Crunchbase, over $200
SF News Nextdoor Knows It Has A Racial Profiling Problem, CEO Promises Changes The neighborhood-focused social media company Nextdoor has enjoyed tremendous growth since its 2011 San Francisco launch. The company, which differentiates itself from competitors by limiting its online groups to those who live within
SF News Charges Dropped Against Former Crack Kingpin Pulled Over With $100K In Cash A Sonoma County Judge dropped recent charges against former crack kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross today after claims by Ross that his arrest was the result of racial profiling. Ross was arrested last Thursday
SF News U Can't Touch This: MC Hammer Charged With Resisting Arrest, Goes On Twitter Rant Oakland native, would-be dotcom entrepreneur and aging former rap star MC Hammer (né Stanley Burrell) was arrested in Dublin, California last Thursday night after a police officer approached his car and asked if
SF News SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera Calls for Arizona Boycott San Francisco’s City Attorney Dennis Herrera has called for a boycott of Arizona over the state's new (and frightening) immigration law (SB 1070) which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer on Friday.
SF News SFPD Accused of Racial Profiling Latino immigrants are fuming that they're the target of racial profiling from SFPD goons. A hearing was held at City Hall on Monday, where "dozens" of non-English speakers told harrowing stories of being
