Years ago. Were supposed to be celebrating our empowerment and our community as queer people, that we wake up to finding that people are bashing our building and breaking our windows because of their own hate. Swinging hard, as hard as he could and he was angry. Reporter cosmos was setting up his jewelry stand when he saw a young man breaking the windows with a golf club. Cosmos started yelling. Stop, stop, stop, as loud as i could. Then he saw me. Reporter he says the man took off on a bike. Joe hawkins was the first to carry the pink torch for this years pride weekend relay culminating in San Francisco and escorted by mayor libby schaaf whos outraged by the vandalism. And i am furious that anyone would find it appropriate to commit that kind of act on any building, but particularly this sanctuary. Reporter San Francisco pride celebrations have gone virtual due to covid19, and many say the Castro District has lost its party spirit this year. Because its supposed to be pink saturday to
Stunned. Abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard joins us live in oakland with more on this story. Cornell. Reporter dion, on a weekend when many of us should be celebrating our pride, folks here at oaklands Lgbtq Community center are just not feeling it after someone broke the windows this morning. They vow to move past this. Meantime others are getting used to pride celebrations gone virtual. Im just speechless. Reporter its not what joe hawkins was expecting this pride weekend. They crashed that window, broke these completely out. Reporter most of the windows in oaklands Lgbtq Community center smashed on saturday morning. Joe cofounded the center three years ago. Were supposed to be celebrating our empowerment and our community as queer people, that we wake up to finding that people are bashing our building and breaking our windows because of their own hate. Swinging hard, as hard as he could and he was angry. Reporter cauosmos saw a you man breaking the windows with a golf club. Cosmos
Across the country in major cities. Seattle, chicago, minneapolis, also in new york city. Of course, all of this as protesters continue the call to defund the police. And staying in new york city, get ready for phase two. Restaurants allowed to reopen. But its all al fresco. Thats all right. The weathers good. You have to sit outside. By the way, another 300,000 people expected to return to work in the big apple. And President Trump officially restarting his 2020 campaign with a rally in tulsa, oklahoma, but there is controversy over crowd size. We are all over that story and so much more. We will get it going on Varney Company which begins now. Ashley all right. First things first. Ive got to get you to the very latest on the virus. Over 2. 2 million cases now here in the United States. This as those 12 states on your screen have seen a record spike in cases over the weekend. Susan li joins us on this monday morning. Susan, give us the numbers. Susan good morning. So the states that s
As a covid19 outbreak continues at san quentin state prison, plans to transfer inmates have halted. Police officers put on leave for allegedly making homophobic comments online. Get ready for a pretty windy one as well. Abc 7 news at 11 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Four San Jose Police officers have been placed on administrative leave. This comes amid an investigation into a private face Group Facebook group, where current and retired Law Enforcement officers, allegedly, shared bigoted and racist comments. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im eric thomas. And im dion lim. Civil Rights Groups are now demanding, not only a fast investigation but, changes from the department. Abc 7 News Reporter joins us live from the newsroom with more on this story. The president of the San Jose Police union says he plans to expel every retired and active member from the union who participated in the private Facebook Group which was us
North of us and that is allowing for not only, yes, the wind and my microphone, i know, is bad, im sorry about that. 59 in mount 56 in fremont. Well talk about the red flag warning in a few minutes. Sorry about that technical difficulty. Before businesses in San Francisco have to wait longer to reopen. They were supposed to reopen tomorrow but a spike in coronavirus forced the mayor to put plans on hold. Here is what is not allowed to reopen just yet. That is salons, tattoo and piercing studios, massage parlors, outdoor bars and museums including the San Francisco zoo and dr. Grant coal f colfax explains. We had near a doubling in the last couple of weeks of our rate of diagnosis of infections. That curve is now very is quite steep, but we need to be very cautious and thoughtful as we move forward. Dr. Colfax says they will be watching closely to see whether the percentage of positive cases corresponds to an increase in hospitalizations. Two to three weeks from now. In the north bay, m