SF News New SFPD Chief Bill Scott Sworn In Amidst Small Protest A swearing-in ceremony for SF's new police chief Monday at the City Hall rotunda was interrupted briefly by a small group of protesters affiliated with the Frisco Five the hunger strikers who led
SF News Department Of Justice Report Finds SFPD Bias But Carefully Avoids Alleging Racism A US Department of Justice report requested by city officials including Mayor Lee that was approved in February and released yesterday describes, in nearly 400 pages with 94 findings and 272 recommendations, a
SF News Police Groups Pay $15K For Full Page Chronicle Ad Basically Opposing Mario Woods Day The name Mario Woods has become a rallying cry for local Black Lives Matter activists. A Bayview resident suspected in a stabbing who was shot and killed by police in December, Woods' death
SF News Hunger Strikers, The Frisco Five, Pack Up And Go To The Hospital Mission PD protesters packing up. They say #Frisco5 are at hospital. pic.twitter.com/cAZAufKwi0— Evan Sernoffsky (@EvanSernoffsky) May 6, 2016 Welp, some people wondered after yesterday's unproductive phone call with Mayor Lee
SF News Protesters Block Valencia Street After Police Cut Short Community Meeting Correction: An earlier version of this post ran under the headline "Protesters Block Valencia Street After Chief Suhr Cuts Short Meeting." Chief Suhr did not attend the meeting, and the headline was inaccurate.
SF News Hunger Strike Grows Outside Mission Police Station Calling For Chief Suhr's Resignation Hunger strike in front of Mission police statiom led by @EQUIPTO continues. 5 ppl on hour 170. pic.twitter.com/2Iy02pmGNo— Chris Roberts (@cbloggy) April 26, 2016 A hunger strike began late last
SF News DA Gascon Denounces 'Old Boys' Club' In SFPD As Department Announces New Community-Oriented Bureau In an effort to restore trust in the San Francisco Police Department in the wake of the killing of Mario Woods, Police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee announced Monday that some
SF News Autopsy: Mario Woods Shot 17 Times From Behind, Had Drugs In System Mario Woods was shot by SFPD officers 20 times on December 2, with an autopsy describing the trajectory of 17 of his gunshots wounds as "back to front." The medical examiner's report was
SF News Rapper Equipto, Others Arrested After Heckling Ed Lee At The Fairmont Rapper Equipto, a name in the West Coast hip-hop scene, has been taking on a new role in the last six months: bête noire to Mayor Ed Lee. He's heckled the public official
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Reportedly Describes SFPD Shooting Of Mario Woods As 'Horrifying' 'Firing Squad' According to an interview in a local print newspaper, Mayor Ed Lee has gone from terming the video of Mario Woods' shooting by five officers with the San Francisco Police Department as "upsetting"
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 Following Fatal Shooting Caught On Video, Department Of Justice Announces 'Comprehensive Review' Of San Francisco Police Policies A little more than a week after San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee called for a federal investigation into the San Francisco Police Department's caught-on-video shooting of Mario Woods, he has his answer: The
Arts & Entertainment Super Bowl City Opens With Fireworks, Booze, Protests, And Many Selfies Super Bowl City, the “Folsom Street Fair for heteronormative jocks” free-to-the-public street party celebrating Super Bowl 50, opened on Saturday with major fireworks, the Bay Lights relighting, a Chris Isaak show, and tens
SF News Photos, Videos: Mario Woods Protest Draws Hundreds At Super Bowl City On the sidewalk but no let up in the wall #NoJusticeNoSuperBowl pic.twitter.com/j8RF1yqwcr— 64 GB (@gilbazoid) January 30, 2016 Hundreds convened at Super Bowl City on Saturday to protest the shooting
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 All The Cops Who Shot Mario Woods Are Back On The Job The five SFPD officers who fired on and killed Mario Woods, a 26-year-old black man in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood, have been cleared to return to work by a Police Department panel and
SF News [Update] Lanes Reopen After Protesters Turn Westbound Bay Bridge Into Parking Lot Protesters on #BayBridge have stopped traffic with sign that reads "Black Health Matters" pic.twitter.com/lNlqdz7kKe— KTVU (@KTVU) January 19, 2016 According to KRON4, a "March to reclaim MILK's radical legacy" organized
SF News [Update] Video: Mayor Lee Shouted Off Stage By Protesters At MLK Day Event Mayor Ed Lee was shouted off stage this afternoon by a group of protesters challenging his handling of the ongoing scandal involving SFPD's response to the shooting death of Mario Woods. The Mayor
SF News Nevius Paints Chief Suhr As Victim Amid the ongoing outcry over the SFPD's actions in the shooting of Mario Woods last month, and the subsequent attempted justification of those actions by police chief Greg Suhr, Chronicle columnist C.W.
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 Supervisors Seek Day Of Remembrance For Mario Woods, DOJ Investigation Into His Killing By SFPD An apology. A day of remembrance. And hopefully a Department of Justice Investigation into the San Francisco Police Department's use-of-force, training, and tactics. That's all the Board of Supervisors were able to offer
