Racism and policing, and the role of Police Unions. Come to order. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and thank you to everyone for being here for this important briefing. Black lives matter. I cant breathe. Hands up, dont shoot. No justice, no peace. These powerful phrases are rallying cries for fair minded americans seeking to live up to one of this countrys core principles. Equal justice under the law. Since our nations founding, africanamericans have struggled, fought and died for the right to be free and equal citizens. This month marks 99 years since the tulsa race massacre, where an entire, vibrant community was destroyed and black men, women and children were systemically murdered. Today is juneteenth. A holiday that celebrate s the freedom of black people in america. That freedom did not come until 1865. Two and a half years after president lincoln abolished slavery. We are still working for freedom and we are still working to provide equal opportuni
Utish, inry, br short. Where was the social contract for george floyd . Where was the social contract for Breonna Taylor . Where was the social contract for tamia for tamir r ice . Put simply, for black americans, the social contract is always been contaminated by racism and white super missy, the nations original sin White Supremacy, the nations original sin. A black american has more than doubled the chance of being killed by the police as a white american. Police encounters are a leading cause of death for young black men. The problems of Police Brutality we confront today reflects the persistence of embedded Structural Racism in our country. Violent White Supremacy is the real deep state that we must uproot and discard in america. Yes, my friends across the aisle have been in search for it for several years right now. Racism is the real deep state in america. Violent White Supremacy dominated our country for an entire century, and the Supreme Court did nothing other than constituti
Sway james we first told you about the most recent 3point3 magnitude earthquake with a push alert at 5 35. You can stay up to date with breaking news in your area. All you have to do is download the kron 4 mobile ap. darya james we are also following breaking news on the traffic front. A rough firday commute with two overturned big rigs. Robin winston is here with the details. Mojor hot spot in sunol overtunred big rig on eb 84 Little Valley rd. A major crash in haywrd nb 880 at whipple accident blocking the three left lanes lanes dave expect very Cool Temperatures by sunrise under clearing skies and lessening winds. Another very cool night is forecast for friday night. Dry weather and slightly warmer temperatures are expected over the weekend. Cooler, unsettled weather is expected to return by early next week with another system bringing rain to the area later next week. james in the east bay. Concord has had its first homicide of the year. Police received reports yesterday morning ab
The efforts of the Community United for health and justice. Weve been able to secure commitment from the Mayors Office of housing to develop housing at the upper balogh park station it was looking at Mission Street in no way be huge efforts to raise to 1 Affordability Housing at the balboa reservoir. Its a heavy lift, but with kevin is involved in doing is making sure voice of Committee Members are part of that process. I am proud of his work and the work he does in district 11 link black, brown, and agent unity which i believe is essential ingredient to people driven social change. San francisco and around the world. Prior to working at coleman advocates for children and youth, kevin has worked at black youth vote in atlanta. As well as he led the Morehouse University Embassy International chapter. Is also studied at city college, where he graduated in 2004 after attending the good marshall my school and he served as the student body president and coordinator of students serving stude
Those folks spoke the other night, they did not speak for vernal heights. They spoke for mission and other places. We thought we would get to our neighborhood to make sure people are safe. I just want to make sure people are safe. We need to give everybody a chance to talk. There is a thing called difference of opinions. We are going to listen to everybody. Please show the respect that everybody deserves. We can only go, listen, we respect everyone of you. We are all here. Look at this commissionch. Here is the thing, if we cant have a meaning, we wont have a meeting. Please. Go forward. Thank you. Hi, my name is mother elaine jones. Im in the south of market and there has been a lot of change in the south of market. I truly believe dont just focus on yourself, but focus on your community. Our crime just went down a lot. We are now, we are looking at Pedestrian Safety because a lot of people are dying crossing thoughts streets. But, im out there almost everyday working my community to