Shelter, education and healthcare. Please invest in these resources by keeping us all safe and invest in the community. Thank you. Next speaker please. Im born and raised in the city. Calling in on behalf of my community. Im calling on behalf of the lives lost by sfpd. One of the things that need to change about the Police Department, i will echo the same thoughts about reduce running the Police Budget. We need higher budget cuts. Next speaker please. I live in district 4. Im calling to ask defund and disband sfpd and the Sheriffs Department. We need to cut the Police Department by at least 50 . We need a budget that fires sheriffs deputies and cut overtime. You take that money to invest in the community, police dont keep us safe. That was made apparent again. We need to make drastic changes nationwide and San Francisco can lead the way. Communities are those with better acts with housing and healthcare and education. Invest in people and communities, not cops. Thank you. Next speaker
Renter of district 5 and member of the senior and disability actions housing collaborative. There is so much stuff from displacement and high rents before the pandemic. And now, illness and income loss and inability to pay rent due to the virus. Thousands of seniors, people with disabilities, other low income folks, and families of color are most vulnerable to the homes. I urge expanded support for the Legal Council programs and these are life lines to keep us in our homes. We rely greatly on the temporary rental assistance programs and also the permanent rent sub subsidiaries and we need them to be expanded especially now. So, less money for the police and more money for 100 affordable housing, no more market rates luxury housing and it contains just a trickle of affordable. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, my name is chris and im working at San Francisco general and im on San Francisco native as well as a member of s. Sciu2021. Im asking the bo
An equal and unfair treatment the murder of george floyd and Breanna Taylor and many other black americans has shed a harsh light on the systemic racism and pervasive in our country. Black people are not safe here go out for a jog or go to church or stay in their own home and too often at the hands of police right now the impact of two diseases one is medical professionals working around the clock and a global effort with a common enemy and still so many people are suffering and dying the other is a disease has never their country since birth and we have had decades in which we ignored the plight of black citizens. Those joining sar on the front lines attacking both of these diseases and challenges and they are truly leaning at a time where at the National Level we are fortunate to have these leaders to develop these options in all four of them have been working at the forefront to develop those systems to serve the entire community with the reform of the system so we really want to be
To impose a new security law. Or chinas foreign minister speaks out against meddling in hong kong warning countries to stay out of its affairs. Also ahead muslims marking the end of the fasting month of ramadan but this year its under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. Ok lets begin with breaking news out of occupied East Jerusalem where the long awaited trial of the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is getting underway as we go on air Benjamin Netanyahu is facing 3 cases of corruption but he denies the charges of bribery fraud and a breach of trust terry force it is our correspondent live for us outside the court in occupied East Jerusalem harry good afternoon he has been speaking what was he saying. Yes he he came just a few minutes ahead of the time that the trial was due to get underway we understand that the trial has been delayed because of the extraordinary scenes really of the israeli Prime Minister in office a sitting Prime Minister some things never happen before
Drivers to slow down, especially with all these people out on the roadway. To be clear, oaklands slow streets is not to close any city streets, rather to limit traffic to locals only on certain residential streets and quarters. That means if youre driving in your own neighborhood, maybe getting a delivery to your home, those are okay, that is local only. This will apply to 74 miles of oakland streets, as you mentioned. Thats 10 of the citys roadways. Were taking this opportunity to try some new things. Oaklanders are very anxious right now, and really trying hard to adjust to a radically different reality. And we hope that this slow streets movement will help give some joy, some recreation, some exercise, in a safe and physically sdadistanced way to oakland families throughout the city. Reporter if you drive on a slow street without knowing it, you will not get a ticket at this point. This is an education campaign. But a city councilman is urging the sheriff to crack down on speeding a