Mayor Todd Gloria is forming a nine-member group of advisers that will help his administration tackle unique challenges facing Black communities, he announced.
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Updated on February 8, 2021 at 4:44 am
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The NAACP San Diego Branch on Monday called on elected leaders to address what it labeled a hostile and toxic culture within the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.
In a letter to Mayor Todd Gloria and the City Council, the NAACP shared images of what it said were troubling symbols and pictures found in fire stations and on equipment, including a sticker of the Gadsden flag on a helmet in a fire truck and a sticker of the “thin blue line” flag on what appears to be a door at a station.
The NAACP noted that the flags are sometimes associated with White supremacists.
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The San Diego Police Department has authorized its officers to not wear their name tags during protests if a department leader gives them the OK. Instead officers would wear a tag with an ID number on their uniforms.
Some community members say a number instead of a name will undermine transparency and make it difficult to hold officers accountable. The Police Department disagrees.
A police spokesman said the move a policy change was in response to instances in recent months across the country in which officers’ personal information was revealed during protests.
The department pointed to one instance in San Diego. During a small protest outside the department’s downtown headquarters on Sept. 10, a pair of officers, at the request of a protester, shared their names and ID numbers. Minutes later, the protester used a bullhorn to “yell out” the officers’ home addresses and salary information, according to police spokesman Lt. Shawn Takeuchi.