Present. Supervisor stefani. Present. Supervisor walton. Present. Supervisor yee. Mr. President. All members are present. Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Place your right hand over your heart, please. I pledge allegiance to the flago f america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. What i would like to do is before we go to communications, and before we get into our special order at 2 00 p. M. , i would like to at least say a word or two. Before we get started i want to acknowledge George Floyds funeral today and thank the city family, particularly m. T. A. , for halting all Public Transit from 12 00 to 12 08 p. M. To acknowledge the wrong that happened to mr. Floyd and to the many other black and brown individuals in our country. C
Well, ive always wanted to say that i need to have a conversation with my Career Guidance counselor. That was not always in the plan. Good morning, thank you. We do have cooler lows this morning. I might get down to 52 degrees. That is a rarity this morning. Not today, we are running cooler under mostly clear skies. We have a little bit of fall to. We dont see much of it. Temperatures are near 50. There is a rarity. Northwest it looks like 41 degrees. It will be cooler when the north winds blow. It will be close to average for San Francisco. Tomorrow will be warm. We will have more on that in about 10 minutes. It is 5 01. Things are still quiet. Sal . There is nothing major just yet. This is the way we like it. Lets see what we have now in the morning commute. I want to show you, traffic is looking pretty good. Look at the bay bridge toll plaza. It should be a nice drive. Here in oakland, traffic is moving well in both directions. At 502 lets go back today. Money would go towards use o
And well it has been flowing through the veins of 2020 like painkillers through congress or sudafed through our president freedom of speech and expression have brought us both the just like the political protest against oppression and Police Violence that followed the murder of george pointed to the incredibly stupid and dangerous light the protests we saw having to wear masks and being asked to stay at home following the outbreak of covert 19 whatever one feels about the causes whether you are for or against it you cannot deny that the power of free speech has been on display all over 2020 so far but that hasnt stopped efforts on both the right and the left of the political spectrum here in the United States in their attempts to tear down our freedoms of speech and expression when its used against their own beliefs or agendas take this week where both republican and democrat media organizations politicians and keyboard warriors have been hyperventilate. Ting over recent scandal involv
For about 30 minutes. Asking him, is he drunk, why is he driving, what is going on. It seems pretty standard. And the whole time throughout this video you have human beings being human beings. You have rayshard who is clearly inebriated and he is talking to the cops and you have cops asking the questions, what was interesting to me about this video is in the beginning it seems like everything is goes to be fine. The cops are talking to him like a person. Theyre not being theyre not being disrespectful, they are not being mean or anything. Hes being respectful. He is calling them sir. He is not kussing them out. Hes offering to walk, everything is going well. Everything is going well. And then in one moment in just a few seconds, every part of that normal story turns into the abnormal ending that weve come to know as interactions with police and black people. Because the police try and arrest him. He resists and he wrestles with the police. In the scuffle they try and tase him, while is
Followed the murder of george pointed to the incredibly stupid and dangerous like the protests we saw having to wear masks and being asked to stay at home following the outbreak of covert 19 whatever one feels about the causes whether you are for or against it you cannot deny that the power of free speech has been on display all over 2020 so far but that hasnt stopped efforts on both the right and the left of the political spectrum here in the United States in their attempts to tear down our freedoms of speech and expression when its used against their own beliefs or agendas take this week where both republican and democrat media organizations politicians and keyboard warriors have been hyperventilating over recent scandal involving n. B. C. News google ads and the federalist according to very conservative vehicle the National Review on tuesday this week google threatened to ban the. Right wing political news web site from the federalist from generating advertising revenue on the compa